The river clam that chews its own bedrock

The river clam that chews its own bedrock

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....