Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells ...

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Their shells come in a huge variety of shapes and colours - probably more than you ever realised – each one perfectly adapted to suit a particular environment or behaviour. With so much variation, ...

Bullish (Video) Snails: Mollusk Movement and Shell Biology - Educational Film Posted: March 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 21, 2025 *Life Story of the Snail* (1963) is an **11-minute color ...

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

The shells of bivalve mollusks have been shown to contain a wealth of information about the environment in which the organisms lived as well as about their life histories. Shells of the Great Scallop ...

The neck resembles an aardvark's snout, an elephant's trunk or a monstrous prehistoric earthworm emerging from a fist-size shell, among other things. Forty years ago this mollusk was virtually ...