{"id":99002,"date":"2019-11-25T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/these-bizarre-wormlike-creatures-eat-rock-poop-sand-and-may-even-redesign-rivers"},"modified":"2019-11-25T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:43:25","slug":"these-bizarre-wormlike-creatures-eat-rock-poop-sand-and-may-even-redesign-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/these-bizarre-wormlike-creatures-eat-rock-poop-sand-and-may-even-redesign-rivers","title":{"rendered":"These Bizarre Wormlike Creatures Eat Rock, Poop Sand, And May Even Redesign Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4crB-YKYbdo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most clams are happy to make their burrow in a nice, soft bed of sand or mud. Not this mollusc. A recently uncovered relative of the shipworm puts the hard into hardcore, chewing holes into rocks and excreting the debris as sand.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lithoredo abatanica<\/em> joins a short list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-05133-4\">freshwater animals capable<\/a> of literally weathering the landscape and creating real estate for other species to hide in, while potentially affecting the course of their river ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Only thing is, we don\u2019t really know why it goes to these lengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most clams are happy to make their burrow in a nice, soft bed of sand or mud. Not this mollusc. A recently uncovered relative of the shipworm puts the hard into hardcore, chewing holes into rocks and excreting the debris as sand. Lithoredo abatanica joins a short list of freshwater animals capable of literally weathering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}