FOLLY BEACH — Park officials will close the fishing pier here on Oct. 19 to begin replacing the structure that has become heavily damaged by shipworms. The replacement effort will take the next 28 ...

During my weekly 40-mile beach survey on an electric bike this past week, I noticed something unusual washing ashore — logs riddled with small, burrow-like holes. These weren’t just any beach relics; ...

Among the great scourges to plague humanity, the shipworm must be one of the most underappreciated. Since antiquity, these wood-boring sea animals have sunk ships around the world and quietly altered ...

The popular Folly Beach Pier won't close for repairs any time soon — and maybe not until later this year. Delays with federal permitting has put off the closure, which was expected last fall. "We are ...

Shipworm has spread to the Baltic Sea. If it continues to spread, it threatens to destroy still well-preserved and irreplaceable shipwrecks and other marine archeological remains along the coast of ...

Secret of the world’s most destructive and intriguing mollusk has implications for everything from climate change to human health AMHERST, Mass. – They bedeviled ancient Greek navies, helped shipwreck ...