Shells of their former selves: How sea snails have adapted to invasive predators
In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, ...
Sanibel shell museum: This tiny, cream-colored shell was found in 28,000 feet of water
Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, ...
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Atlantic horseshoe crab
They live on the Atlantic coast of North America ... Horseshoe crabs also have 10 eyes—a pair of compound eyes on the front shell and more photo receptors along their tail.
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Clam Cancer Rips Along Atlantic Coast
A fatal leukemia that decimates soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) populations in the Atlantic may be caused by a contagious ... cancer cells isolated from various locations along the East Coast shared ...
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Sea snails evolved defenses against invasive predators
Two common snail species (Nucella lapillus and Littorina obtusata) have evolved in response to a major predator: the invasive green crab.
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Shells of their former selves: How sea snails have adapted to invasive predators
Among the most successful of these are predatory green crabs—small, brightly colored crustaceans that have surged north from the mid-Atlantic coast over the past few decades and love to feast on ...