Between the 16th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was the prevailing order, it is not surprising that scientific expeditions, specimen deposits in natural history museums, and descriptions of ...

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Horse conchs, the flashy marine snails that inhabit Florida’s colossal state seashell, live shorter lives and reproduce later than previously understood, according to new research that warns the Gulf ...

This is Blob. Blob can't do much, like lift his own head. He doesn't even have a head. If Blob had been born with a spine, or backbone, he would have been a vertebrate. If we give Blob some legs and a ...

Introduction: Mollusk shells represent a major substrate for the colonization of microbial communities and the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. However, our knowledge of the shell microbiome is very ...

I Instituto de Pesquisas de Planárias, Universidade Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Caixa Postal 275, 93001-970 São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil II Instituto de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade ...