Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

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A new exhibit has hatched at the Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth. “Marvelous Mollusks: The Secret World of Shells” opened on June 6, made possible due to support from the ...

Specialists of the A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the South Seas (InBUM) of the Russian Academy of Sciences assessed the content of rare earth elements (REE) in the shells of mollusks common ...

Scrub any remaining tissue clinging to the inside of the shells with a plastic scrubber. I then run the shells through an electric dishwash cycle. After you've done this a few times, the shells turn a ...

Last week we talked about the techniques for steaming clams. Today we forge ahead with mussels and oysters. Mussels are somewhat sweeter in flavor than clams. Try to get nice, big mussels. They're ...

Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced another devastating menace: Fashion. A nearly insatiable demand for ...

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