Shell shareholders on Tuesday re-elected Chair Andrew Mackenzie and CEO Wael Sawan, who said when asked about a potential ...

It is in this interaction between mantle and shell that the potential for pattern formation exists. Any mismatch between mantle and aperture will physically stress the mantle tissue. If the mantle ...

The group gets its name from the leg-like extensions along the edge of the expanded opening of the shell (aperture) that serve no function in locomotion. Living in the intertidal and shallow subtidal ...

As a mollusk expands its shell, it adds new material to only one area: the opening, or aperture. Envision this as a circle. If, with each new layer, a mollusk deposits a ring of material the same ...

They cement their heads directly onto the rock and stay there, but periwinkles suction themselves to flat surfaces at their shell aperture, and shove one foot out to push around, typical of ...

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, ...

And the sound is very directed in the axis of the aperture of the shell," said Philippe Walter from Sorbonne University. C. Fritz, G. Tosello Both ends of the conch were modified Image processing ...

They say beauty is everywhere if we have eyes to see. A team of scientists looked at a tiny, 3-mm snail and saw art. An international group of malacologists (researchers studying mollusks) led by ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because ...

"Although the shell sizes of these snails are less than 5 mm, they are real beauties! Their shells exhibit extraordinarily complexity," they say. "For example, the aperture (the 'opening' of the ...