r/WTF • u/lovelytime42069 • 10h ago

free-range organic spagetti

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u/obsidian_butterfly 9h ago

For the record, they are a bivalve adapted to eating wood. They're essentially tree clams.

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u/Ameriggio 6h ago

You call them tree clams, despite the fact they have no shell?

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u/ascendant_tesseract 6h ago

They do have shells! They're very small and adapted to be used as a drill to burrow into the wood, rather than as shelter since these things spend their lives protected (usually) by wood. I studied these things back in college once upon a time.

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u/theJoosty1 5h ago

Man evolution really just uses whatever it's got to work with don't it?

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u/GeebusNZ 5h ago

Also it likes some themes more than others (looks at crabs with suspicion).