Located in the eastern part of the southern Jordan Valley, Tell Bleibil has been researched by a team of scholars from German ...

Their shells come in a huge variety of shapes and colours - probably more than you ever realised – each one perfectly adapted to suit a particular environment or behaviour. With so much variation, ...

The concrete industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, but a new study says that it could ...

He owed his recovery to one of the most underrated pastimes in human history: shell collecting. The peculiar human passion for the exoskeletons of mollusks has been around since early humans first ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E. 1999. Mollusc Shells. In A. Golani and E.C.M. van den Brink Salvage Excavations at the Early Bronze Age IA Settlement ...

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

Recently, the "Mingyuan Project" has have found that most of them are actually mollusks and do not have a hard shell. Through identification, the team of scientists discovered that 89.4% of the 7564 a ...

There's always a risk in consuming raw seafood including clams, but rest assured, you can take certain precautions and keep ...

Natural pearls form when some kind of irritant, usually a small organism, makes its way into the shell of a mollusk like an oyster or a mussel. To protect itself from the invader, the mollusk ...

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 ...