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Malacology Monthly: Going Deep

Sub-Neritic Gentrification For November we will be doing some deep thinking about deep-sea mollusks in an attempt to understand the complex history and adaptations of…

Adaptations Biology Coral Reef Ecology Evolution Intertidal Mollusk Uncategorized Weird

Malacology Monthly: It Eats Whaaaat?

Douglas Long November 11, 2015 conchology feeding ecology Gastropod malacology marine biology marine ecology mollusk Parasite predator sea snail seashell shell Snail toxins trophic

Not all snails scour the ocean bottom for algae and muck, but some have more refined tastes. But taste is one thing, and having the…

Biology Evolution Mollusk

Sleuthing the Largest Snail

Dr. M May 5, 2014 Australian Trumpet Biggest Campanile giant largest shell Snail Syrinx

Reason #381 that I love my job I spent this morning doing this: In the last few days I have been tracking down the world’s…

Gadgets & Gear Reviews

Undersea jewelry (and sparkling diamonds) from Tiffany & Co.

Holly Bik December 27, 2012 diamonds earrings fashion fish jellyfish jewelry seahorse shell Tiffany

If any readers out there want to spoil the ladies of DSN with some diamonds, we will gladly accept any of these lovely pieces from…

Adaptations Cephalopods Organisms

How the Gastropod Got Its Twist

Dr. M October 8, 2012 evolution Gastropoda larvae Mollusc mutation poetry shell slugs Snail torsion veliger

All snails and their ancestors, the Gastropods, share a common feature. We people with fancy Ph.D.’s in biology call this a synapomorphy, a word derived…

Adaptations Organisms

Can Bivalves Kick It? Yes they can!

Dr. M September 25, 2012 apoptosis bivalve Environmental Sciences genome heat shock Mollusca mollusk oyster protein shell stress

Starting around 540 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion many animal phyla, including the freshest of them all—bivalves, came into existence. Within ~100 million…

Ecology Pictures and Movies

Finding The Perfect Home That Just Screams YOU!

Kevin Zelnio March 2, 2012 Crustacea Hermit Crab shell trash

Hermit Crab Changes Shell & Hermit in a Bottle “After having looked for years, we finally saw a hermit crab in the act of switching…

Art Pictures and Movies

TGIF – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Kevin Zelnio December 2, 2011 Marcel the Shell shell

I found this amusing, did you?? MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON, TWO from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo. h/t @CackleofRad

Adaptations Evolution New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Barnacle Evolution I: Phylogeny Served Without Plates

Kevin Zelnio January 10, 2011 Barnacle Best of Zelnio Darwin evolution Hydrothermal Vent Morphology Phylogenetics shell Stalked Barnacle Systematics taxonomy

Barnacle evolution was recently rewritten by a large effort of Perez-Losada and colleagues in 2008. Using a combination of genes and morphological traits they rejected…

Adaptations Organisms

The Twelve Days of Snails

Dr. M December 21, 2010 12 days of Christmas Christmas Gastropod larvae Radula shell Snail

The holidays are a time for lists: shopping list, grocery list for the holiday meal, things I must accomplish before the year ends, and Santa’s…

Deep Sea News

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