The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...

Hermit crabs are also grappling with fewer available shells as mollusc populations decline, so "it may be less costly ...

Many groups are also excellent indicators of past environmental conditions. The mollusc collection is one of the largest in the Museum, with more than five million specimens. Our collection contains ...

have discovered a new species of mollusc that lived 500 million years ago. The fossil, called Shishania aculeata, reveals that the earliest molluscs were flat, shell-less slugs covered in a ...

Europe's shellfish farmers, represented by the European Mollusc Producers Association (EMPA), strategic expansion of ...

A shell structure has a thin curved outer layer and is hollow. These structures often are used to hold or protect something. They usually have only a small number of joins or no joins at all.

A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. The crab is far from alone. Plastic waste ...

Shell Plc employees excoriated the company’s leadership in response to an internal annual workforce survey as Chief Executive Officer Wael Sawan cuts jobs across the business to help drive ...

Russia is seeking over $1 billion in damages from Shell, which quit the country in the aftermath of President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It is the latest move in a ...