Sep 6, 2026 | Journal
The rock-eating clam is, as advertised, a clam that eats rock. Lithoredo abatanica lives in a stretch of the Abatan River on Bohol Island in the Philippines, and instead of chewing wood the way every other shipworm does, it chews limestone. It swallows the limestone....
Aug 13, 2026 | Journal
The textbooks draw the Proterozoic ocean as a slow oxygen curve: a rise, a long plateau, then a second rise in the Neoproterozoic. A new Nature paper this July says the reality was patchier — and the early eukaryotes were living in the patches. The claim comes from...