Each mollusk’s shell contains three distinct layers – all made of the same material but arranged in different structures. There is a smooth and shiny inner layer, a chalky middle layer and a ...

Evolution by natural selection can help explain why shells became widespread among mollusks, but it cannot fully elucidate how an individual creature builds a skeleton as exquisite as, say ...

One is the shell itself, (the skeleton) and the other one is essentially the group name for shelled marine mollusks, mostly snails and clams. - [José] The shell is there from minute one ...

That's right: They're cannibals. Moon snails drill holes in other mollusk shells to digest the tissues inside their prey. But this can take a long time. In fact, depending on size of the prey ...

A valiant mollusk, living with his grandmother in an Airbnb, stars in “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” based on the short films by Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate. Marcel sleeps in his ...

Ms. Beltrán is among a group of designers who are mixing humble mollusk shells with gemstones ... people associate “precious” with large, shiny diamonds and other gems, for her, it’s ...

Marcel the Shell, the internet’s favorite mollusk, had a voice before he had a body. Actor Jenny Slate was with friends at a hotel room for a wedding when the voice came to her: A childlike ...

For over a decade it has been possible to extract and sequence ancient DNA from empty mollusc shells up to tens of thousands of years old. However, these techniques have so far proven very ...

Marcel Proust had his memory-infused madeleines. Marcel Marceau had his invisible dog and a lifetime of pantomime. But it’s unlikely we’ll ever see a more beguiling Marcel than the inch-tall ...