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University of Massachusetts's Amherst Campus: New Species of Rock-eating Shipworm Identified in Freshwater River in the Philippines
June 19, 2019
AMHERST, Massachusetts, June 19 -- The University of Massachusetts's Amherst campus issued the following news:

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UMass Amherst scientist among international team of researchers studying biodiversity with an eye toward developing new drugs

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A newly identified genus and species of worm-like, freshwater clam, commonly known as a shipworm, eats rock and expels sand as scat while it burrows like an ecosystem engineer in the Abatan River in . . .

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