| 单词 | shipworm |
| 例句 | Matters reached crisis-point in the early 1980s, when it was discovered that the enormous wooden piles which hold up the entire structure were infested with teredo shipworm. Barmouth Bridge to receive further £30m upgrades 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z The only part of the shipworm that extends beyond the wood are two siphons the animal uses to breathe and to expel waste. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The former pier, a Lowcountry landmark since 1995, was closed in October due to heavy damage from shipworms, The Post and Courier reported. Construction moving along for new Folly Beach fishing pier 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z And Dr. Haygood says that any compounds they find have already gone through millions of years of pre-screening in the bodies of evolving shipworms. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Now, researchers have found the first shipworm that eschews wood for a very different diet: rock. This rock-eating ‘worm’ could change the course of rivers 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The discovery, which was reported in the journal PeerJ on Thursday, occurred during a feverish episode of wading through mangroves and scuba diving in coastal waters looking for wood that contained shipworm burrows. What’s Pink and Pinstriped and Digests Wood? This New Shipworm 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Documenting shipworm sex with a GoPro is not part of Dr. Shipway’s core research, but something he felt was his duty as a scientist when the opportunity presented itself. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z She said the excavation was a "race against time" to rescue the artefacts as the sandbank recedes, exposing the wreck to the elements and attacks from shipworm and gribble. Shipwreck's latest artefacts revealed 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Dr. Haygood welcomed today’s guests of honor with gloves: shipworms, pholadidae and bryozoans, the oddballs that might bring drugs to the table. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The rock-eating shipworm does have one big thing in common with its wood-eating counterparts, however: Its burrowing may cause harm, in this case by changing a river’s course. This rock-eating ‘worm’ could change the course of rivers 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z When Dr. Shipway extracted one of the tiny captured shipworms from its burrow, he knew right away he was looking at something new. What’s Pink and Pinstriped and Digests Wood? This New Shipworm 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Treneman collected the shipworms filmed in the study by dropping pine planks off a dock in Charleston and collecting them nine months later. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Scientists have found live specimens of the rare giant shipworm for the first time. 10 things we didn't know last week - BBC News 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Dr. Haygood scraped a smoothie-like mixture of freshly-ground shipworm, which also contained the bacteria from inside its body, and spread it in zigzagging lines into petri dishes and tubes filled with a jellylike medium. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Marine shipworms store the wood they eat in a special digestive sack, where bacteria degrade it. This rock-eating ‘worm’ could change the course of rivers 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z They explored its insides using a type of CT scanning and learned that its organs are arranged in a pattern unusual even for a shipworm. What’s Pink and Pinstriped and Digests Wood? This New Shipworm 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z When Dr. Shipway stuck the GoPro into the soup of gametes, he noticed something unusual: The shipworms had entwined their siphons in enormous knots. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z “When I began, three decades ago, very few people were left working on shipworms,” Distel said. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Pholadidae, which resemble white grapes, are shipworms’ younger cousins. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The new shipworm—a thick, white, wormlike creature that can grow to be more than a meter long—lives in freshwater. This rock-eating ‘worm’ could change the course of rivers 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z “It’s about six times as long” as that of most other shipworms, perhaps to help in the processing of its food, said Dan Distel, also of Northeastern. What’s Pink and Pinstriped and Digests Wood? This New Shipworm 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The shipworms kept up this competitive melee for nearly three hours. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z But with shipworms, Distel found, the bacteria live inside the animal’s own cells. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Their pharmaceutical talent might be explained by bacteria living in their gills, which send enzymes to the gut to help shipworms break down wood. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Hundreds of sharp invisible teeth cover the shells in the wood eater, but the rock-eating shipworm has just dozens of thicker, millimeter-size teeth that scrape away rock. This rock-eating ‘worm’ could change the course of rivers 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z By carefully chipping away at the end of a chalky tube, researchers found a long, black, wormlike mass oozing from its casing—the first live specimen of the giant shipworm Kuphus polythalamia. Top stories: Naked mole rat superpowers, a deadly salamander disease, and alternatives to grant writing 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Certain shipworms that had the misfortune of burrowing too far to touch siphons with another shipworm vicariously released their eggs and sperm into the water while their more cosmopolitan neighbors psuedocopulated. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The last time people thought very seriously about shipworms—people other than shipworm scientists, that is—was likely in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when wooden ships still reigned. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Until naval engineers switched from wood to steel, shipworms were popular research subjects. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The team of scientists from the US, the Philippines and France recently found and collected five giant shipworms in Mindanao in a marine bay. Live, long and black giant shipworm found in Philippines - BBC News 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Usually, though, the microbes help shipworms digest wood. Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In another sequence — “The Smack” — a shipworm trying to pseudocopulate with another shipworm is batted away by a third shipworm. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z A shipworm is in fact not a worm but a clam that looks like a worm and eats wood. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z She hoped this would prompt the shipworm’s bacteria to colonize the medium and start growing. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The giant shipworm spends its life encased in a hard shell, submerged head-down in mud, which it feeds on. Live, long and black giant shipworm found in Philippines - BBC News 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Unlike with other shipworms, named because they ate their way into the sides of wooden boats, no one knew where the giant shipworm lived. Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z For example, if the shipworm you dissect just went through a marathon session of pseudocopulation and belched out all its sperm, it might appear female. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Pliny and Ovid wrote about shipworms; the Romans coated the hulls of their vessels with tar and pitch as protection. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “There’s no such thing as an uninteresting shipworm,” Dr. Haygood said. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z It belongs to the shipworm family, whose members are usually much smaller and burrow and feed on rotting wood. Live, long and black giant shipworm found in Philippines - BBC News 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Researchers investigated the lagoon, where they plucked a live shipworm from the mud, slipped it along with some seawater into a PVC pipe and shipped the animal to a laboratory. Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z This insemination can even be simultaneous, with one shipworm shoehorning its sperm into a second shipworm with one of its siphons, while its other siphon receives a gob of sperm from a different shipworm neighbor. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z In 1503, shipworm damage sank two of Christopher Columbus’s vessels and ended his fourth and final voyage to the Americas. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Its unusual residents, shipworms and related marine organisms, could serve as incubators of unexpected medicines, churning out new lifesaving formulas and compounds that may not be found anywhere else on the planet. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The giant shipworm is unique not just for its size, but also for feeding on mud and marine sediment instead, using a type of bacteria. Live, long and black giant shipworm found in Philippines - BBC News 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z For hundreds of years, biologists knew of the giant shipworm only from shell fragments and a handful of dead specimens. Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Dr. Shipway had stopped by the bunker for a routine tank cleaning — shipworms produce piles of sawdust-like waste — when he found the tanks teeming with a white miasma and erupting from the shipworms in clouds. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z One day, a Filipino student showed him a news story, in Tagalog, about locals eating shipworms for medicinal reasons. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Wilson was the first to explore, document and study the shipworms and other marine xylophiles that moved into the forest when it emerged. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Despite being known as a shipworm – a nod to its relatives’ diet of submerged wood – the animal is actually a type of clam. Bizarre bivalve: first living giant shipworm discovered in Philippines 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The symbiotic arrangement between microbe and giant shipworm was similar to one found in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In these cases, although the shipworms’ behaviors may look coordinated, it is hard to know whether their movement is intentional, or just the serendipitous outcome of random siphon flailing, or another behavior altogether. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z A century ago, when shipworms were a common scourge, governments around the world paid scientists to study them. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The shipworms could also pick it apart faster than researchers can. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z But it isn’t just its discovery that stunned researchers: the giant shipworm is also surprising for its mode of survival. Bizarre bivalve: first living giant shipworm discovered in Philippines 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Despite their similar names, though, tube worms and shipworms aren't close relatives. Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z He believes unlocking the secrets to shipworm reproduction will help scientists understand how wood is recycled in the oceans, as the mollusks play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z He found a more accessible animal in the shipworm. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z But they entrusted this group of scientists, led by Dan Distel, a shipworm marine biologist and director of Northeastern’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center, with the highly guarded coordinates for that day’s expedition. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z That energy is then used to turn carbon dioxide into nutrients for the shipworm. Bizarre bivalve: first living giant shipworm discovered in Philippines 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Smaller shipworms are fleshy pink, beige or white, as are most clams. Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Back in Oregon, Ms. Treneman plans to collect more of her shipworm panels this week and bring them back to her lab to try and see the action for herself. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z For tens of millions of years, shipworms were limited in their diet to floating logs and sunken stumps. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z And as far as shipworms go, which usually burrow into and feed on wood from ships or sunken trees, K. polythalamia is unique for squatting down and making a home in ocean mud. Giant shipworms discovered hiding in sulfurous lagoons 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Simon Watt, biologist, TV presenter and president of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, welcomed the discovery of the giant shipworm. Bizarre bivalve: first living giant shipworm discovered in Philippines 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In the case of the giant shipworm, the scientists found grains of sulfur packed into the bacteria. Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The only way to sex a shipworm is to dissect it, but even then its sex is slippery. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Eventually dugouts, galleys, schooners, and frigates appeared as a side dish, and shipworms became notorious as the termites of the sea. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z A different set of microbes living in the gills of K. polythalamia uses this hydrogen sulfide as an energy source to make carbon molecules that help sustain their shipworm host. Giant shipworms discovered hiding in sulfurous lagoons 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Says Mike Luis, “Eventually you end up replacing everything. They burn. They get shipworms. All kinds of things. There’s very little of the original left.” 98-year-old boat steals owner’s heart _ and life savings 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s known as wormwood, but the intricate designs are actually made by shipworms, which are really clams. Tunneling clams help a Salish Sea renaissance man make art from waterlogged timber 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Like Brunel’s shipworm, the machine was a self-contained factory, leaving a ready-made tunnel behind it. The Long Dig 2008-09-15T04:00:00Z Workers are caulking the boat, repairing planks, replacing walkways and structural members, adding drainage points and applying a sheathing that protects against shipworms. Brooklyn Sites Get $2.6 Million to Undo Hurricane Sandy’s Toll 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Other preoccupying issues included termites in the basement of City Hall and shipworms that were chewing up the wood supporting the pier containing Frank Sinatra Park. Making Claim, Town’s Mayor Gains Notice 2014-01-23T02:56:11Z Together, they attack wood pilings; the gribbles, which are tiny crustaceans, chew from the outside, while shipworms, larger mollusks, bore tunnels within. Cleaner Harbor Has a Downside: Pests That Plague Park Construction 2011-08-24T01:57:12Z But it is the shipworm, a mollusc with a bivalve shell, that is boring its way in to the wood and causing structural damage to the timbers. Disappearing ship 2011-05-13T23:19:24Z The park, with a heavily used soccer pitch and riverfront walk, sits on century-old timbers that were riddled with shipworms, or teredos, tiny mollusks that bore into wood. As Hoboken?s Riverfront Crumbles, the Cost for Repairs Soars 2011-02-08T02:05:05Z Now that it was out in the open, it could be seen that teredos—shipworms—had feasted on it and burrowed into it until it was nothing but a chair-shaped shell. The Wailing Octopus Southern exposures from their heat produce rot, the wood worm, shipworms, and all sorts of other destructive creatures, and strengthen and keep them alive. The Ten Books on Architecture In the month of January the mouth of the river was entirely closed up,403-1 and in April the vessels were so eaten by the shipworm,403-2 that they could scarcely be kept above water. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Although shipworms can live in cold water they thrive best and are most destructive in warm water. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S There was nothing of which the Norsemen were more afraid than of the teredo, or shipworm, which gnaws the wood of ships. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic These mollusks, which are popularly known as "shipworms," are much alike in structure and mode of life. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing De la Roquette in the French translation gives bruma the meaning of “shipworm,” supposing it to be a variant form of broma. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 |
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