Clam shellfish eat rocks

Clam shellfish This strange animal is eating rocks for breakfast, and although clam shellfish eat limestone, researchers are not sure whether this creature finds any actual food from those rocks or not, for example, do bacteria help Found in the gut of clam in the cracking of rocks and the release of nutrients? Lead researcher Dr. Robin Shipway, the Center for Oceanography at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, said. We want to look at the symbionts of bacteria that live inside clam shells, to see if bacteria can provide any of the nutrients, and this is a field of research that we are currently focusing on.

The newly discovered clam shellfish is a type of ship worm, which is the name given to a group of shellfish and this name is called because it eats up wood, especially ship wood, and although it is difficult to eat wood, the mutations in clam shell help these oysters in drilling in materials, These mutations include small rows of small sharp teeth on the shell and a special member for storing wood and digestion called the cecum, as researcher Dr. Robin Shipway told Life Sciences.

It is known that all shipworms eat wood, so researcher Shipway and his colleagues were surprised when the Filipino residents of Bohol Province in 2018 told them about freshwater shipworms eating rocks clams and locally, known as antingaw, and young mothers ate these worms because they believed That the worms will help them breastfeed (researchers note the newly discovered species on a recent expedition led by French biologist Philippe Bouchet at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, but it was the locals who helped the new team locate the mysterious worm. L researchers

Unlike other ship worms, the Litredo abtanica worms (which roughly mean the rock ship worm in the Abatan River) lost all perforating conditioning operations to timber, including the cecum, and instead, the clam shell has a large shell-like shovel that it uses in digging rocks. And the shell of clam shells breaks the rock, which the animal then eats, digests and flushes it out as fine sand, and there are a small number of animals that swallow rocks, for example, birds use stones to aid in digestion, Shipway said, but clam shells are the only animals Maar Which eat rocks FH through the drilling process.

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