COULD paper, print and pictures make a meritorious book, this would be one. The paper is of superior quality, and the print is exceptionally clear and clean; whilst the illustrations, although ...

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire ...

Jules Stewart reports on the ambitious plan to bring oysters back to New York Harbor, which once had the world's richest beds ...

Heart cockles have windows in their shells made from natural optical fibers, allowing light through to the algae inside them.

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could ...

Molluscs from the Early Bronze Age Site at Ashqelon Afridar, Area N - הרכיכות מאשקלון אפרידר, שטח N This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E. 1999. Mollusc ...

A team of marine biologists, ecologists and evolutionary specialists from the University of Chicago, Stanford University and ...

Called Shishania aculeata, the new fossil reveals that the earliest molluscs (animals that do not have a backbone) were flat, ...

But ammonites weren't reptiles: they were ocean-dwelling molluscs, specifically cephalopods. Zoë Hughes, Curator of Fossil Invertebrates at the Museum, explains, 'Ammonites are extinct shelled ...

Laurent composed this shot of the animals stirring beneath the watery reflection of their habitat, contrasting the angular molluscs with the sleek hunter. Because the thick shells of molluscs are ...