Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

How do shells get their shapes? These are the forces behind their twists and coils. ... To truly understand the seashell, we must peer beneath its biology to the underlying math and physics.

If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the U.K. coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny ...

They found that in limpets, the fate of shell-forming cells is specified autonomously, rather than through induction by other cell lineages as previously believed.

This adaptation highlights the complex design of their shells and provides insights into this remarkable balance of strength and ... Journal of Experimental Biology, 2025; 228 (7) DOI: 10.1242/jeb ...

Earlier this year, Hegg, an assistant biology professor at Gonzaga University, received nearly $100,000 from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to figure out how to read that shell data.

A study published in the journal Current Biology describes a new example of tool use by a critically endangered population of ...

Shells, and the mollusks that live in them, can be deadly. Think seashells are just pretty ocean ornaments? ... There is the weird biology many of these creatures have developed.

Thinner shells are more likely to chip, and the nutrition of the chickens laying the eggs can have an effect on how thick or thin the shell is. But Purdum suspects it's something other than a ...

A hermit crab wears the top of a broken bottle as a shell. Shawn Miller. Pictures and videos of hermit crabs creating new homes from human litter—co-opting anything from Lego pieces to soda cans ...

Object Details Author Saunders, W. Bruce Landman, Neil H Contents Nautilus studies-- the first twenty-two centuries / Richard Arnold Davis -- The ancestry of the genus Nautilus / Curt Teichert and ...