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Researchers believe rising sea temperatures are to blame for the plummeting number of invertebrates such as molluscs and sea urchins at Rottnest Island off Western Australia, with some species having ...
The worm-shaped, shell-less Caudofoveata is one of the least known groups of molluscs. As early-branching molluscs, the lack of high-quality genomes hinders our understanding of their evolution and ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Seemingly simple animals such as the snail and squid have ransacked the genetic toolkit over the last half billion years to find different ways to build complex brains, nervous ...
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Mollusks, from land snails and slugs to oysters and mussels in the sea, have a few things in common. They have a head. They have a soft middle part that holds their organs. Then, some have a muscle ...
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Researchers and citizen scientists document the fascinating lives of seashells. Seashells, with their beautiful shapes and colors, have inspired humans since the dawn of time. Equally fascinating are ...
National Geographic reports that shipworms are nibbling upon the Baltic Sea’s well-preserved shipwrecks, nom-ing them into oblivion. The shipworm is actually a wood-boring mollusc, Teredo navalis, ...
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The new data on strontium in deep-sea sediments indicate that though foraminifera and coccoliths may be low in strontium (1,200–1,800 p.p.m.) yet the deep-sea carbonate deposits are higher as a whole ...