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.

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

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.

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.

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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 ...

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 ...