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He Thought It Was Just a Pretty Shell—Until He Realized It Could Kill Him!
The ocean’s beauty often hides unexpected threats, and one diver’s recent experience in Egypt’s Red Sea serves as a chilling ...
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Clams have a foot, muscles, and pearls inside of their shells
Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of two valves, or hinging parts. And that shell comes in all different sizes. There are small clams ...
Leave the sea shells, save the shores: Why Visakhapatnam’s marine ecosystem needs them
Discover the importance of sea shells in marine ecosystems and the need for conservation efforts along Visakhapatnam's ...
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Evolution of colour and vision in marine invertebrates
The fabulous and diverse colours and patterns of molluscan shells and brightly coloured echinoderms are widely recognised, however their function for the animal is sometimes less clear and has been ...
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Fossil mollusc collection
Our collection contains specimens belonging to the seven shell-bearing molluscan classes from across their entire geological range. Specimen of the large marine gastropod Voluta muricana showing an ...