The marketing pitch for Florida’s Sanibel and Captiva islands is “250 Kinds of Shells, 250 Miles of Bike Paths, 15 Miles of Beaches.” With shells getting the top billing over the islands’ many scenic ...

Beachcombers know that seashells appear in an endless array of colors and shapes, and researchers have just discovered that this variation extends to the molecular level. In fact, each shell is as ...

Berkeley -- University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Alistair Boettiger has amassed a beautiful collection of seashells, but not by combing the beach. He created them in his computer. He ...

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 ...

Researchers modeling the tough exteriors of two types of mollusk have finally figured out how seashells keep those soft, squishy insides safe. Thanks to the shape, stress is sent to the parts of the ...

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A new study found that a rare mollusk species, the Acanthopleura granulate, has hundreds of eyes layered on top of its shells. The species was successful in evading a compromise in its evolution ...

Storms in general usually bring in an excess of shells – so Sanibel, the "seashell capital of the world," could possibly see more shells due to Ian's impacts. But the presence of excess shells could ...