Examples of shipworm in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The shipworms created over 100 strains of bacteria — about 12 of which are being tested for their potential to create new medical treatments, CNN reported. — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2020 But the bacteria found from the shipworms that had been living inside the 60,000-year-old wood had never been discovered before. — Alicia Lee, CNN, 7 Apr. 2020 The shipworms could also pick it apart faster than researchers can. — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020 Previous strains of shipworm bacteria have led to antibiotics that treat parasitic infections in the past, according to NOAA. — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2020 When the wood was taken back to the lab, scientists discovered more than 300 organisms and animals living inside the wood, including shipworms, which is a type of clam that has the ability to transform wood into animal tissue, according to CNN. — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2020 Previous work by the research team on bacteria in shipworms has resulted in at least one antibiotic being investigated as a drug to treat parasitic infections. — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2020 Rafting crinoids flourished until roughly 180 million years ago, when, some scientists think, the appearance of wood-boring organisms like shipworms drastically curtailed their drifting ways. — Raleigh Mcelvery, Smithsonian, 12 Aug. 2019 The two most common borers are a kind of shipworm called Teredo navalis, which is actually a wormlike clam, and tiny crustaceans known as gribbles. — New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019

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