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Feb. 9, 2024 Snail shells are often colorful and strikingly patterned. This is due to pigments that are produced in special cells of the snail and stored in the shell in varying concentrations. Fossil shells, on ...
Aug. 11, 2023 With 350 million years of evolution culminating in almost two centuries of scientific discourse, a new hypothesis emerges. Researchers propose a new explanation for why ammonoids evolved a highly ...
Mar. 2, 2022 Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a new ...
June 29, 2021 In addition to providing coloration, the exoskeletal shell of beetles needs to be strong and damage tolerant, researchers ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Athletes often suffer injuries to ligaments in their knees, particularly to the anterior cruciate ligament or ACL. While surgery to replace these torn ligaments is becoming increasingly common around ...
Mar. 3, 2022 Airplane wings that don't ice up or solar cells that generate electricity even in winter - ice-free surfaces are important for many applications. A team of scientists has now studied an ...
Oct. 9, 2023 A newly-discovered, bright yellow snail has been discovered in the Florida Keys and named in honor of Jimmy Buffet's song 'Margaritaville.' The lemon-colored marine snail, along with ...
Apr. 5, 2022 New research looks at how the geometry of shells relates to the energy input required to actuate snap-through ...
Apr. 6, 2022 Unregulated commercial harvesting and recreational live collection are pushing Florida horse conch populations closer to ...
Dec. 13, 2021 The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth's past. For the first time, ...