An itsy-bitsy mollusk in Borneo is the new record holder for the world's smallest known snail, a new study finds. Its shiny, translucent, white shell has an average height of 0.027 inches (0.7 ...

Listen! You can hear the sounds of the ocean, but is it getting quieter? Last week while snorkeling in Roatan, Hondoruas, I came face to face with a Conch. Not a shiny shell in a gift shop, but a ...

There is a remarkable snail with breathtakingly beautiful shells that can only be found in Cuba. It is not native to any ...

In the future, if you drop a glass on the floor and it doesn't break, thank a mollusk. Inspired by shellfish, scientists have devised a new process that drastically increases the toughness of glass.

Giant clams' shiny shells could inspire new solar power tech. By LiveScience. ... Essentially, the oversize mollusks, which can measure more than 4 feet long, ...

The shell is attached to the mollusk, but is not actually a part of the body. Shells grow from the bottom up, and as the animal ages, the shell gets larger. When a mollusk dies, it discards its shell.

Every mollusk’s body is surrounded by a mantle, a cloaklike organ that secretes calcium carbonate and mixes it with a scaffolding of protein to form a shell one layer at a time. As a mollusk ...

And as the body of the mollusk grows, it will add more and more shell material, making the shell larger. - [José] The shapes are super varied and there's a lot of engineering that goes into that ...

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 ...

Have you ever heard of a nudibranch? They're colorful mollusks with no shells and you can see them at the Bailey-Matthews ...

They found fossilized shells of a snail-like mollusk called Ecphora that lived in the mid-Miocene era--between 8 and 18 million years ago. Ecphora is known for an unusual reddish-brown shell color, ...