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Shells - leave them by the shore

"This summer, please leave the sea shells by the seashore. Someone needs that shell more than you. For native wildlife, both occupied and unoccupied shells provide important shelter and sources of calcium and grit."

"If you absolutely must pick something up and take it home, please pick up some of the vast amount of plastic found on Australian beaches."
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#shells #seashells #collecting #beach #ecosystems #tourism #hoarding #BeachCombing #marine #wildlife #habitat #MarineParks #molluscs #shellfish #plastic #waste #TakeAway #HolidaySeason

What a #mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common npr.org/2024/11/23/nx-s1-51996

Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses: Dakota McCoy et al. nature.com/articles/s41467-024

"the structure of the #HeartCockle's shell operates as its own kind of fiber #OpticCables to channel light to the #algae living inside it"

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@alcootatooter no no no that was superhelpful ☺️ I really had no idea those #oceans creatures exist!! When I sat down after visiting the beach looking at those pretty tiny pieces, they were all around the washed up lobsters, and googling the images did not return anything, so I made an assumption and am very happy to learn what they actually are!! ☺️ Now I will look out for the whole #mollusc :D they washed up on the beach with a flood of bluebottles, and seeing these #marine #molluscs are from QLD I guess the warmer water might have brought them along...

It’s not every day that you see the phrase “Gummy squirrel with parasitic snail attached”, yet, here it is, on #RadioNewZealand.

Turns out a “gummy squirrel” is “a weird sea cucumber with a large sail-like extension” and this one was found on a recent deep sea expedition to the Bounty Trough “one of the world’s least explored deep-ocean ecosystems”.

It’s an interesting article about lots of new discoveries.

rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/