For centuries, shipworms have vexed mariners by boring into – and consuming – the hulls of wooden ships and boats. Soon, though, we may actually be eating those "worms," as they have successfully been ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a laboratory in Cambridge, scientists are breeding a new fishy snack: long, white, slippery molluscs. These ...

Throughout history, shipworms — stringy mollusks that bore into wood — have wreaked havoc on the world’s navies, causing once-seaworthy ships to capsize and even destroying San Francisco’s wharves a ...

A shipwreck believed to be that of Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour is being eaten by shipworms in its resting place off the United States coastline. Dr. Reuben Shipway, Lecturer in Marine Biology ...

A competitive sexual frenzy in which bigger appendages have the most success of reproducing might sound like the briefing for a porn film, but instead, it's the finding of a new study examining a clam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the biggest threats facing the commercial wharves lining Newark Bay and New York Harbor can hardly be seen — yet the ...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Centuries-old shipwrecks off Sweden's southern coast may be destroyed by shipworms invading the warming Baltic Sea, researchers say. "We're quite worried about ...

April 18 (UPI) --Scientists have for the first time collected live specimens of the rare giant shipworm. The long, black marine worms were found in the Philippines. The worm lives most of its life in ...

After almost 250 years at the bottom of the sea, the remains of the ship believed to be Captain James Cook's Endeavour may be at risk. Marine biologist Reuben Shipway spoke to As It Happens guest host ...

James Cook, who began his famous voyage on the Endeavor in 1768 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Australian archaeologists made headlines earlier this year when they announced that a sunken ship ...