For thousands of years, a sea creature has plagued sailors by attacking and devouring their ships. It is so destructive that reportedly it swiss-cheesed the hulls of Christopher Columbus’s ships, sinking at least two of them.

Toxic waste, by definition, is harmful to living things, but there are actually a bunch of plants, animals, fungi, and microbes that can help us clean it up! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon

A plane fueled only by the sun is flying around the world and a certain cancer in shellfish is contagious! Olivia Gordon explains these stories in this week's SciShow News.

For thousands of years, a sea creature has plagued sailors by attacking and devouring their ships. It is so destructive that reportedly it swiss-cheesed the hulls of Christopher Columbus’s ships, sinking at least two of them.

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Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex...

Smooth Giant Clam (Tridacna derasa) on healthy Coral reef, Meemu Atoll, The Maldives

MS Tridacninae, giant clams / Ogasawara Islands, Tokyo, Japan

ECU Shot of Bivalve of shell open with edge of mantle visible / Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

ECU Shot of Single thorny oyster attached to reef, bivalve shell opening and edge of mantle visible / Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

Scallop (Pecten maximus) on the seabed. As the diver approaches it swims off by repeatedly contracting the halves of its shell. Filmed off the Pembrokeshire coast, UK

bed of oysters on a shoreline

Freshwater mussels and fish, River Yeguas, Sierra Morena, Andalucia, Southern Spain

Freshwater mussel digging into river bed, River Yeguas, Sierra Morena, Andalucia, Southern Spain

Freshwater mussel digging in to river bed, time lapse, River Yeguas, Sierra Morena, Andalucia, Southern Spain

Freshwater mussel digging in to river bed, River Yeguas, Sierra Morena, Andalucia, Southern Spain

Freshwater mussel digging in to river bed, River Yeguas, Sierra Morena, Andalucia, Southern Spain

MS AERIAL Shot of Mussel Beds in Bay at Sete / Languedoc Roussillon, France

MS Shot of Several thorny oysters attached to reef wall / Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

Clams featured, little necks cleaned, sprayed with water

Fishermen lift bags of shells off boat onto truck

Man holds red mesh bag of oysters, shellfish being dropped into mesh bags on Falmouth, MA

Fishermen load and weigh baskets of conch onto truck

Clam market signage, fisherman loads boat with pots, takes off on fishing boat on Cape Cod