Northeastern University: The Bacteria in the Clam That Sank a Thousand Ships
May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 22 -- Northeastern University issued the following news on May 19:
They stranded Christopher Columbus in Jamaica. They brought down the Spanish Armada. They sent San Francisco's piers crumbling into the sea.
For as long as humanity has been putting wooden structures into the ocean, shipworms have been laying waste to them.
"There are reports going back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, complaining about shipworms destroying . . .
They stranded Christopher Columbus in Jamaica. They brought down the Spanish Armada. They sent San Francisco's piers crumbling into the sea.
For as long as humanity has been putting wooden structures into the ocean, shipworms have been laying waste to them.
"There are reports going back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, complaining about shipworms destroying . . .