As the climate crisis, food scarcity, and health threats intensify globally, shipworms may become our unlikely ally — offering not only healing and nourishment, but unseen insight into their ecological habitat and lessons in adaptation to a changing environment, writes @crystalcchow.bsky.social.

"The shipworms are many things at once. They have carried different names — from maritime menace to indigenous delicacy to scientific marvel — yet none alone captures their multitude." @crystalcchow.bsky.social for The Contrapuntal: thecontrapuntal.com/are-these-cl...

My new feature story, which follows a team of scientists in 🇵🇭 through mangroves & rivers to learn about shipworms: strange, wood-eating molluscs (not worms!) that might help us understand how life endures, adapts & sustains others as the seas rise. /🧵 thecontrapuntal.com/are-these-cl...

Fascinated by the different stock pictures of dogs that various outlets have gone for to illustrate this story.