This Clam Sinks Ships

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How does a clam eat wood, anyway? Shipworms have been ruining our day for centuries; maybe the time has come to ruin theirs.
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@adamdubin1276 2 года назад

I'm a Nav. Arch/Ocean Engineer, in my humble opinion the copper sheathing of ships was the single greatest breakthrough of the entire age of sail simply because it stopped those blasted worms from eating our ships!

@SAOS451316 2 года назад

i'm sure sailors agree; fouling duty is one of the worst jobs on an old sailing ship! the less you have to do the better.

@canis2020 2 года назад

What about lemons?

@adamdubin1276 2 года назад

@@canis2020 Kraut and citrus was a medical breakthrough, yes it staved off scurvy but that also affected people on land. Copper Sheathing was specifically an advancement in ocean engineering and naval architecture that allowed for the easier maintenance of ships and for them to stay in service longer by preventing fouling.

@DemonKyle 2 года назад

I would pick the Harrison Clock. Without good navigation, you are pretty much screwed.

@downinthevalley9757 2 года назад

"stop eating holes in my ship!!"

@Swishy_Blue 2 года назад

Who needs giant claws or tentacles to take down a ship when you could just EAT IT.

@pclouds Год назад

If you eat a problem, you don't have a problem.

@oriongurtner7293 Год назад

The real eldritch horrors were the shipworms we found along the way 🫠

@hugmynutus 2 года назад

> eats limestone hold up, you can't bury that lead

@zwiebeldogs 2 года назад

Yeah! I think we need a small part 2 about that one

@rujamein 2 года назад

The discovery was published back in 2019 and there's a good video titled 'A new genus/species - Lithoredo abatanica'.

@rujamein 2 года назад

And if you want to read the original research paper, it's called 'A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines'

@culwin 2 года назад

*lede

@LincolnDWard 20 дней назад

@@culwin both are acceptable. "Lede" is just an alternate spelling of "lead" used in the printing industry (they wanted to give it a unique spelling so they could label the "lead paragraph" in a way that would not be confused for part of the text)

@demetrialowther727 2 года назад

These pestilent molluscs are also the reason why Tasmania's Huon Pine (Lagarostrobus franklinii) was almost felled to extinction and also earned it's legendary status. Huon Pines were discovered to be immune to ship worms and basically everything that might otherwise rot or eat wood. The ancient trees, often living well past 1000 years old, had soft yet durable, easily worked wood that was laden in cedar-like resinoids and aromatic oils that instantly made it a sensation among early colonial Tasmanian ship builders. No need to paint the hulls of vessels or clad them in protective copper sheets to prevent shipworm consumption. Within barely a century, the trees were stripped from almost every river bank to feed the ravenous ship building industry until they were almost extinct. Today, the remaining stands are in national parks and the species is slowly recovering (very slowly given how slow the trees grow), but it's incredible what an impact the dread of shipworms had on what seeming was a totally unrelated species and ecosystem.

@dgill441 2 года назад

Wow. I’ve never heard of this tree, fascinating! Thanks for the comparison to Cedar helps me understand it better! We here in the USA felled waaaay too many cedars and giant sequoias for furniture and building and such. Learning about trees and plants in context of history I think makes you appreciate them much more.

@gregdaweson4657 2 года назад

You should plant a few

@dgill441 2 года назад

@@gregdaweson4657 I don’t think they’d survive the mid-Atlantic America climate ! But they sound interesting

@gregdaweson4657 2 года назад

@@dgill441 Imagine being a nerd about a tree that grows on the other side of the world.

@dgill441 2 года назад

@@gregdaweson4657 I can imagine it! I have a big garden so I love growing stuff !

@mitchellskene8176 2 года назад

Lithoredo, which is the limestone eating shipworm, is a fascinating creature in my opinion.

@ProfAwesomeO 2 года назад

I think its more fascinating that people make ships from limestone for them to eat/jk

@weirdredpanda 2 года назад

I would like to see a video in it specifically.

@mitchellskene8176 2 года назад

@@weirdredpanda Me too!! It's to my knowledge the closet thing on earth that you could say is a lithovore (consumer of rock), it's really fascinating!!

@smexijebus 2 года назад

I ate a bunch of rocks as a kid

@pickles3128 2 года назад

@@smexijebus Were you neurodivergent? Pica, specifically geophagy, can indicate autism, schizophrenia, or an intellectual disability. You could've also been suffering from malnutrition, iron deficiency, or anemia. (The latter, specifically, can indicate low hemoglobin concentration in their blood, lower levels of red blood cells, or lower plasma zinc levels.) Or you could've just been a kid: pica is common in toddlers and preschoolers, who put things in their mouth they find on the ground. I ate ants at age 4 until one bit me. The head remained clamped onto a papilla on my tongue, even after I swallowed the rest of the ant's body, and it was very painful.

@FairMiles 2 года назад

Don't turn the tables on the shipworms! They will eat them!

@m1xedp1ckle 2 года назад

Lmao

@NinaDmytraczenko 2 года назад

@justaregularguy115 Год назад

Then just use a glass/metal/plastic/stone table on them.

@wendyrobertson3899 Год назад

I spent an entire summer with my Dad digging worms out of the bottom of a 70 year old boat. We used a propane torch to heat the wood enough to bring the worms to the surface and then used a hooked implement to reach in and pull the worms out dumping them into grain alcohol, essentially pickling them. It was hot hard work but the end product was so much fun to take out to open waters. Dad and I got to do her first run from the south of the island to the north of the island. I think I liked the painting part the best. The copper paint was the hardest but most rewarding part of the summer. It went from a gray to beautiful blue when the sprayer swung from side to side. I gotta admit, picking worms from the hull of the boat was pretty gross but patching the holes they left was pretty interesting getting to squeeze in the sawdust and glue mixture then sanding it a week later. Love y'alls videos! Keep am coming!

@robertojrantonio3443 2 года назад

We eat these shipworms in the Philippines, we call it tamilok. It tastes like oyster but it has this grainy texture as you eat it, probably the wood dust the animal ate

@oliverwells8011 2 года назад

Raw or cooked?

@robertojrantonio3443 2 года назад

@@oliverwells8011 it’s best eaten raw

@thesun6211 2 года назад

Kinda curious if they could be cultivated, maybe by sinking or making rafts of logs in a natural or manmade mangal. It'd provide an additional source of Protein for nearby communities, and maybe allow more Food Production in an ecosystem that could produce oysters, shrimp, and possibly crabs as well as providing a nursery for fish.

@TheScienceguy77 2 года назад

@@robertojrantonio3443 it's best not eaten at all.

@robertojrantonio3443 2 года назад

@@TheScienceguy77 for people like you, it is best that you don’t even think about it.

@fitzy2313 2 года назад

The best part of all this is that the most credited scientist throughout is literally named Dr. Shipway.

@Charlie._.Niron22 2 года назад

It's fascinating that an animal has evolved to fit into a niche of eating Driftwood! The one that eats Limestone atleast slightly makes sense, Maybe, Probably, Possibly.

@left4twenty 2 года назад

Limestone being made of essentially the same stuff as shells, and also having a decent number of embedded fossils, helps it make sense. It's like if we as humans found an apple mine, where we could just dig for apples

@Devo491 Год назад

There's a few timbers that are virtually immune to shipworm. Teak is too tough, as any shipwright knows, and some timbers have such a high resin count, the worm won't touch them. Among these are a couple of Australian timbers, both very rare: Fraser Is Satinay and Huon pine are both famous for their long life in the ocean.

@Avohaj 2 года назад

I certainly would never have guess that a Bizarre Beasts video would ever end on "lets try to eat it"

@TheDimsml 2 года назад

You should definitely check out the lionfish. One of the suggested ways to deal with this invasive species is catching and eating them.

@apdroidgeek1737 Год назад

If they dont have predators… we become one

@KxNOxUTA 8 месяцев назад

@@apdroidgeek1737 Just spread the rumour that it enhances libido and the worm will be at the brink of extinction in absolutely no time. We have so many examples of this happening, it's guaranteed to work. :'3

@timothylee8494 2 года назад

I mean people do eat them in Indonesia and South America. Split open some wood, pull out the stomach, and drizzle some seasoning. Supposedly it resembles oysters in flavor

@AlbertaGeek 2 года назад

Ship worm: engages in something called pseudo-copulation Me: who knew I'd have something in common with a ship worm?

@nogardmarith 2 года назад

In southeast Asia, they are already on the menu

@kyokoyumi 2 года назад

Everything is on the menu in southeast Asia w

@Feanne 2 года назад

I've eaten one of these raw, it was pretty good! It's a local delicacy; they are common in mangrove habitats ("tamilok" in the Philippines)

@mrpickles-hb6zx Год назад

Ew.

@vila777_ 3 месяца назад

@@mrpickles-hb6zxthat’s what hindi people think when americans eat cows, or muslims when they see people eating pigs. it goes both ways.

@KaleidoSTAR_PH 2 года назад

these guys are called "Tamilok" in 🇵🇭, and they usually found in mangrooves resevoir as they eat those to control the somewhat exploding population, the local fishermen usually catch and sell them on markets its mostly eaten raw 🤯

@rujamein 2 года назад

This is a super video, thank you to the Bizarre Beasts team for putting this together.

@J11_boohoo 2 года назад

In the philippines, some locals dive really deep into the ocean to catch the giant shipworms for food

@cameronroman9271 2 года назад

Incredible axolotl top!

@andii64 2 года назад

They're the termites of the sea.

@americaroleplayer 2 года назад

Wouldn't a sea monster that's just a giant shipworm be something else?

@Captopia 2 года назад

Great and interesting video. I also loved that axolotl print on the dress.

@StonedtotheBones13 2 года назад

I missed that ty

@canis2020 2 года назад

When I grow up I want to be a broadcast spawner.

@cerberaodollam 2 года назад

Tbh mood

@MRptwrench 2 года назад

I've seen the work of an artist who took a mass of reclaimed marine wood/timber that was full of holes (don't know if it was shipworms) and after what I imagine was intense cleaning, filled and encased it in acrylic. It was an extremely odd shaped piece, but the artist trimmed it just enough to form the base of an exclusive and invaluable coffee table. The colors and shapes in that piece allowed the viewer to imagine where the piece was encased in silt or muck, what kind of climate it was in, what it's orientation to the currents and sunlight were, where pieces of the original had fallen apart, been entirely corrupted or broke off, and how life was able to latch on it. Or maybe it was just a neat looking thing.

@paolomr 2 года назад

In a few places in the Philippines, they're actually a delicacy so … might as well right.

@rocketRobScott 2 года назад

“Eat Our Boats” is a funny slogan.

@Steveofthejungle8 2 года назад

You should do an episode on the Saiga!

@bartolomeothesatyr 2 года назад

They are indeed bizarre beasts!

@likebot. 2 года назад

If I had to guess, I'd say these little critters evolved from life found around hydrothermal vents.

@JonsChannel1 3 дня назад

No. Driftwood has been going to sea so long as woody plants have existed.

@RetiredAccount3737 5 месяцев назад

Oh my god. I thought these were just AI generated clickbait. But it's real

@thomazxaviercarneiro3697 Год назад

I live in the Brazilian Amazon and it's eaten as a delicacy in some cities here, as it's easily found in the estuary/mangroves/coast of the region. Just look for turu in Google images. It may look a bit disgusting, but clams and octopuses aren't exactly cute and people eat it all around.

@Sanguen666 2 года назад

"You will live in the ships, and eat the worms (and be happy)!"

@brandondavidson4085 Год назад

Aren't we all just long tubes that eat weird things?

@jrzlz Год назад

In North Brazil they eat a kid of shipworm soup called "Caldo de Turu " must be realy brave ngl

@justdoingitjim7095 2 года назад

Euell Gibbons was a naturalist that advocated for eating wild things, mostly plants. Pine nuts and other "forest fare" were likely on his menu at times. He was recognized satirically in 70's TV shows as someone who'd eat anything made of wood. Sonny and Cher presented him a wooden plaque (an edible prop) of which he promptly took a bite of on stage. On the Carol Burnett Show in 1973, he was shown eating tree parts and asking related questions, including "Ever lick a river?" Some people even stated that "even your picnic table isn't safe around Gibbons."

@everythingsalright1121 Год назад

i like how the photo credit for the shipworms is "Dr Reuben Shipway". Shipway and he studies stuff that eats ships, how fitting

@MatiasGeraldoThe2nd Год назад

Don’t try to serve up shipworms on the dinner table. They’ll eat that too.

@briseboy Месяц назад

The long, loose lips [of clams] sink [wooden] ships! Hulls had to be careened, sailed at high tide to sand where tides are large enough to allow drying and death of the long-siphon clams. Sailors still call taking a ship out of water as bringing it up "on the hard", although boats are now often scraped by divers, and the scraping is merely of organisms that substantially slow the hulls. Yes, paint used for areas below freeboard, the part of hulls above water, do contain copper, toxic to organisms.

@shaider1982 11 месяцев назад

Shipworms were the inspirstion on the first under ground tunneling techniques and later machines where the tunnel are reinforced while boring is being done. Shipworms are quite tasty. I have eaten some raw, with vinegar in Palawan , Philippines. I think they were also still alive.

@robertmcgovern8850 Год назад

Thank you for that clip 9f the Giant Shipworm. That's this evening's nightmare sorted.😳😱 There is a marine isopod called 'gribble' that eats wood too.

@jstchllng 2 года назад

A famous delicacy here in the Philippines😋😂

@RedHerring1290 2 года назад

I will not live in a pod, I will not eat the ship worms.

@YangLeee 2 года назад

What a cool fascinating video. This is why I love RU-vid, sometimes. Saying Hello from Denver Colorado:)

@UshioKiss Год назад

Not to compare two red-haired women who look nothing alike but Sarah and Florence Welch both have voices like sirens luring sailors into the ocean

@motaparatu Год назад

Don't termites also have bacteria that help them digest cellulose? I think that in termites they live in their stomachs though.

@pimcramer2569 Год назад

Hell, they almost sank Amsterdam. Edit: did some futher reading: in 1730 it arrived in the netherlands and almost or partially flooded some provinces because it ate the wood used in the dykes.

@JonsChannel1 3 дня назад

No... this was boring isopods which were able to penetrade far inland due to a drought which raised the salinity of inland waters.

@justayoutuber1906 2 года назад

A video about a clam devouring wood? Oh, you mean literally.

@szupko 2 года назад

a thought on their future. Ocean Acidification might reduce their ability to produce their shells and/or destroy their shells

@eljanrimsa5843 2 года назад

When they go extinct, do we have to worry about driftwood accumulating in the ocean?

@youthoughtitwasbadbefore6134 2 года назад

Have you any idea how much wood washed in from rivers around the world would be gathering up on the sea floor? Literally millions of metric tons is deposited in our oceans on a regular basis. Without the wood eating clams the wood would become saturated with water and sink. It literally would never go away. In my book those clams are the hero not the villain of this story.

@Mr.Anders0n_ 2 года назад

Well, the same goes for fungi on land. Sure, it's an essential part of the ecosystem, but it's difficult to admire it when it starts growing on a $1000+ camera lens, destroying it with its poop/waste. Yeah, it's a thing people with expensive photography gear have to worry about. Learned about it the hard way :)

@JonsChannel1 3 дня назад

The wood on the sea floor is a really, REALLY important source of nutrients to the deep sea. The shipworms specified here are shallow water worms; they cannot bore through bark. However, xylophagus sp are deep sea shipworms and use wood falls much like whale falls.

@ApequH 2 года назад

That is a great pin

@Bb13190 Год назад

I should not have watched this episode while having my breakfast.

@littlewoodimp Год назад

Found this deeper dive into the clams themselves very interesting. Living in North Wales not far from Anglesey, and very close to the Greenfield Valley Heritage Park where the copper was hammered into sheets (amongst other things), I've learned more about the human history rather than the 'worm'. The Valley does also acknowledge how this made our small part of the world so important to the trade in human misery of slavery. Worthwhile area for a holiday if you're into the naval history, as between Anglesey and Greenfield you can also visit the oldest copper mine in the UK (and largest Bronze Age mine in the world) at Llandudno.

@ramjeesaradi Год назад

Humans have symbiotic relationship with microbes too, don’t we?

@lindinle 2 года назад

1:46 more like a human centipede mixed with the doughnut of dispair.

@ASPINLOVE 2 года назад

Unfortunately, its illegal to catch/consume The Philippine Giant Shipworm.

@dracodracarys2339 2 года назад

it lives in the sea yet eats wood, that's like if a desert animal adapted to eat fish

@zacrintoul 2 года назад

There are plenty of mangrove habitats that "wood" support them.

@kyokoyumi 2 года назад

No because fish would never be in a desert regardless. Tree branches/twigs/sticks, meanwhile, are always falling off into rivers and getting washed out into the oceans. It just so happened that human ships essentially gave them more food and housing.

@GrimmDelightsDice 2 года назад

Thank you!

@erikgilson1687 2 года назад

Wouldn't ship worms just end up tasting like sawdust

@amiralozse1781 Год назад

your axolotl dress - awesome and neardy at the same time! loveing it

@yamiomo7392 2 года назад

it is unfortune to end up on the menu of humans

@trinkab 2 года назад

Pseudocopulation for these is one of the few mating options I've seen where the supermarket donor has at much at risk as the egg donor.

@sandracampbell4708 2 года назад

I'm digging that axlotl shirt.

@patrickmcmahon1974 2 года назад

That does not look like something I'll be rushing to eat

@tender-warrior 2 года назад

I NEED TO KNOW WHERE I CAN GET THAT SHIRT I WANT IT SO BAD

@SarahSutaMFA 2 года назад

Ha! Thanks! It is a DRESS!!! I got it at a shop in Spokane (Fuego) and the tag says it is from a company called "Attic Salt."

@tender-warrior 2 года назад

@@SarahSutaMFA IT'S A DRESS??? I want it EVEN MORE now hahahaha. Thank you very very much for the swift reply and for the brand name. Time to do some googling. :)

@user-ef4gf7rr9r 2 года назад

Just found it kind of funny that the opening ship is the brig Niagara (pretty sure), which was (and recreated is) confined to the Great Lakes rather than the ocean.

@askthebubble28 4 месяца назад

*TITANIC MOMENT*

@wyattmurphy7153 11 дней назад

And they all said it was loose lips…

@ronbird121 2 года назад

like coconut craps, its a pest? eat it

@jonsey3645 2 года назад

Nice show, very informative and good production quality but the outstanding feature is the narrator. She should be in Hollywood getting proper exposure and playing roles suited for her incredible beauty and talent! This is not meant to be forward or sound creepy, I just had to pay thus humble compliment. Thanks for the educational channel.

@mikemarcott1141 Год назад

Yeah exactly man don't have hash browns and scrambled eggs when you watch this video!

@theishiopian68 2 года назад

I saw in a documentary once that these little guys inspired modern tunneling techniques, like Tunnel Boring Machines.

@Cowboy_Foradalei 2 года назад

People who watch Sailing Yaba knows shipworms very well. xD

@saltyheathen8113 Год назад

Shipworms the termites of the sea!

@evanderchan8475 2 года назад

I can't believe back in the the days sailor didn't think of eating this delicacy, they taste amazing

@sirsawtooth4044 Год назад

One of those hack top 10 channels said that these can burrow into people. Now I'm fairly sure thats cap.

@jeremymaasch1890 2 года назад

I just love the way she talks. Kind of like a witch

@XoLiTlz 2 года назад

I saw a video of a man eating shipworms raw in a mangrove forest and describing it as a delicacy.

@rsmith4339 2 года назад

Our Stomach doesn't use acid to break down food either . Our enzymes work more efficiently in a mildly acidic environment .

@XX-sp3tt Год назад

What's fictional about the kraken? Giant squids are real animals.

@knightshade6232 2 года назад

Did you know in the PHILIPPINES...their is also a shipworm that eats only rocks for the rest of its life...😅😂 🪱 Scientists says that they can digest rocks thanks to their gut bacteria.

@Bro1774 2 года назад

The way we deal with shipworms in the philippines is by eating it as a snack specially if a fisherman is hungry and sees a shipworm he'll eat it

@natebell4764 2 года назад

Yall need to make a new channel called grotesque goobers for these kinds of videos. My coffee is sitting kind of funny in my tumtum now.

@Psychol-Snooper 2 года назад

Can we modify them and their gill bacteria to eat plastic?

@mikemarcott1141 Год назад

To be honest I think I would have a better time looking for psilocybin

@meese9140 2 года назад

I’d sure call a boring clam a sea monster!

@aarav_sharma 2 года назад

this vid was really great

@nicholasjoseph9062 Год назад

So on land we have termites and in the ocean we have sea termite?

@JahLuvzU 2 года назад

I am actually interested, @6:04 , being omnivores, sure, we /can/ eat them, but how much preparation would it need to be consumed by free will?

@bonefetcherbrimley7740 2 года назад

So its a water termite!

@Deckaio 2 года назад

I regret watching this while eating ... Still, very informative!

@TheScienceguy77 2 года назад

"Decrease maternal mortality in Sierra Leone" lol yeah they need more people that they can't feed or care for without outside intervention. That is a sustainable model that totally won't collapse and lead to mass-starvation when America inevitably stops intervening.

@greenhorn6582 Год назад

Would you like to tell me where to get the dress with the axolotl texture?

@1337fraggzb00N Год назад

I tried broadcast spawning once. Now I'm in jail. Stupid coworkers.

@alexanderweeks4701 2 года назад

People already eat ship worms

@Shadow-bk1im 5 месяцев назад

did she say that some ocean worms had bacteria that turned hydrogen sulfide into carbon? I mean I am not a chemistry expert but how would you turn H2S into Carbon? THOSE ARE COMPLETELTY DIFFERENT ATOMS.

@BizarreBeasts 4 месяца назад

That was a little confusing! The shipworms have microbes in their gills that use hydrogen sulfide as their energy source. Those microbes use that energy and produce carbon molecules that the shipworms are then able to use. Their relationship is technically chemoautotrophic symbiosis. If you are interested, here is the paper all about it! www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1620470114