Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum)
Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum)
European Thorny Oyster (Spondylus gaederopus)
Saturday snail butt!
(Amber snail, family Succineidae, on the Wiley Trails)
nude photo
#nature #natur #Weichtiere #schnecken #snail #Molluscs
Schnecken Parade...
Snail parade...
Today I went to see the rarest snails in the world. These critically endangered mollusks exist only in a little pond in Banff. Since it's a sulphur hot spring, the whole area smells of snail farts.
In other news, I sold another poem.
https://bowvalleynaturalists.org/natural-history/snails/ #snail #CriticallyEndangered #SpeciesAtRisk #molluscs #mollusk #FreshwaterSnail #WildlifePhotography #PoetryCommunity
I totally forgot @KateShaw released new episode today, and I just found out it's about cephalopods ... the other other cephalopods.
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/04/07/episode-427-the-other-cephalopods/
listening now.
"Functional mapping of the molluscan brain guided by synchrotron X-ray tomography", Crossley et al. 2025
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40014565/
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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https://theconversation.com/this-summer-please-leave-the-sea-shells-by-the-seashore-243157
#shells #seashells #collecting #beach #ecosystems #tourism #hoarding #BeachCombing #marine #wildlife #habitat #MarineParks #molluscs #shellfish #plastic #waste #TakeAway #HolidaySeason
Mollusc encounter, 330 million years later.
Part of the Cefn Mawr Limestone formation, Anglesey.
No better way to start the new #research year than with a new paper! Enjoy our review on #isotope #sclerochronology on #molluscs led by Andy Johnson!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124005705
What a #mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/nx-s1-5199634/heart-shaped-mollusc-shell-resembles-fiber-optic-cables
Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses: Dakota McCoy et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53110-x
"the structure of the #HeartCockle's shell operates as its own kind of fiber #OpticCables to channel light to the #algae living inside it"
@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...
Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03099-6
Soft cells and the #geometry of #seashells https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/9/pgae311/7754698
"Soft cells — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, #molluscs and more... Studying the #nautilus was the turning point of the work"
Half-a-billion-year-old spiny slug-like fossil reveals the origins of #molluscs
Shishania aculeata reveals that the most primitive molluscs were flat, shell-less creatures covered in a protective spiny armour made from chitin bristles.
A snail having a day out!
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.
Grandinenia jiangjilini: A #NewSpecies of Grandinenia (#Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae: Garnieriinae) from Guangxi
https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/07/grandinenia.html
"The discovery indicates that the inflated-fusiform shell is not isolated in genus Grandinenia and the species diversity of the genus still remains to be explored."