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#mollusc — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mollusc, aggregated by home.social.

  1. `Unique phenomena are important in history but are difficult to study because they resist categorization and are therefore unpredictable. To examine the timing and circumstances of unique evolutionary events, we identified traits that evolved only once in the highly diverse phylum Mollusca as well as unique first occurrences of traits that evolved repeatedly since.`

    pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520

    #biology #evolution #mollusc #mollusca

  2. Tiny #shells collected from the beaches of Rottnest Island decades ago last century, held within my grandfather’s gilded #brass cigarette case. #nature #mollusc #vintage #collection #treasures A world in the palm of your hand.

  3. everyone has heard of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, a joke made up for a poorly-thought out survey of what 1990s people believed on the internet, but somehow nobody has heard of the Mangrove Jingle Shell Clam, a real and amazing animal I learned about from @KateShaw

    hopefully Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman can provide us all with more information on this animal.

    strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigmonia

    #clam
    #octopus
    #mollusc

  4. I follow this rad #engineering dude on YouTube because he shares really cool & interesting content. I love this recent video where he bought an #octopus from a seafood market, brought it home & taught it how to play an underwater #piano that he invented.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fY

    #AnimalIntelligence #cephalopod #mollusc #octopoda #MarineBiology #SeaCreatures #CoolStuff #nature #wildlife #intelligence #OceanAnimals

  5. Shell design carved from limestone containing fossilized shells. Nice. From a well at a residence that is now Les Musées Gadagne, Lyon, France. #limestone #shells #bivalves #stones #mollusc #mollusk #architecture #art #gadagne #lyon #france #travel

  6. Something you won’t often see: Roman Snail (aka the veritable edible escargot) crawling along the North Downs Way. Enormous thing and apparently colonies are now resident in that small area. Never seen such a big snail in the wild before.

    #snail #mollusc #nature #wildlife #naturalworld #walking #hiking #northdownsway #alttext

  7. "Scallops are neither male nor female. They can be both, or they can switch: male to female, female to male, according to the seasons and their biological needs. Scallop gender is as fluid as the ocean that they live within."

    Anja Murray, Naturefile, on Ireland's Lyric FM (5 mins)
    rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22292115

    #nature #scallop #radio #podcast #mollusc #biology #zoology #NaturalHistory #LyricFM #gender

  8. Lab trip to Molluscan forum @ Natural History Museum, London. BBSRC student Alec Lewis presenting our new work on Cuban Polymita.
    #BBSRC #Polymita #NHM #Malacsoc #Mollusc #Snail

  9. Lovely to be invited by Roos Ettema for a @vuamsterdam podcast to talk about the 2x award-winning SLABx3D teaching innovation and much more. You can now listen to my interview with Sem Barendse on Spotify (in Dutch)!

    open.spotify.com/episode/7M2lB

    #snail #lymnaea #slak #biology #biologie #mollusc #mollusk #escargot #hermaphrodite #hermaphroditism #hermafrodiet #tweeslachtig #bioart #invertebrate #SLAB #jesterandwylde #anitomical

  10. Infographic from the Shellfish Museum in PEI. I learned a lot of things about shellfish today. Oysters can change sex throughout their life, so you do you. #oyster #SexChange #bivalve #mollusc #shellfish #biology #OysterPorn

  11. [A KOBOLD] enters your establishment. They try to pay for their meal with [AN OCTOPUS]. Do you accept Y/N?

    #furry #comic #kobold #kobl #reptile #lizard #rat #female #fastfood #octopus #mollusc #pun

    (Dumb idea inspired by the photo at the end of the second part :D)

  12. [A KOBOLD] enters your establishment. They try to pay for their meal with [AN OCTOPUS]. Do you accept Y/N?

    #furry #comic #kobold #kobl #reptile #lizard #rat #female #fastfood #octopus #mollusc #pun

    (Dumb idea inspired by the photo at the end of the second part :D)

  13. [A KOBOLD] enters your establishment. They try to pay for their meal with [AN OCTOPUS]. Do you accept Y/N?

    #furry #comic #kobold #kobl #reptile #lizard #rat #female #fastfood #octopus #mollusc #pun

    (Dumb idea inspired by the photo at the end of the second part :D)

  14. [A KOBOLD] enters your establishment. They try to pay for their meal with [AN OCTOPUS]. Do you accept Y/N?

    #furry #comic #kobold #kobl #reptile #lizard #rat #female #fastfood #octopus #mollusc #pun

    (Dumb idea inspired by the photo at the end of the second part :D)

  15. CW: Dead wildlife with slugs (image)

    Clean-up on aisle three.

    #slug #detritovore #Arion #mollusc

  16. 💡👀👀👀 thekidshouldseethis.com/post/s

    “Recent studies have shown that some species of #scallop are drawn to #light, and this has resulted in an innovative new method of #fishing that is more sustainable: Instead of using a net to drag along the sea floor, fishermen can now use lobster pots equipped with little #LED lights, a bit like an #underwater disco.”

    #video #animals #mollusc #mollusk #scallops #science #biology #sustainability #eyes #naturalhistorymuseum

  17. #Dogwalking miscellany

    #Beach #beachcombing

    I'll pull these two out from the previous CW, as I don't think either is in any way affronting. If you want to see the two equivalent animals (another #mollusc, and #cnidarian) see the previous post.
    Here's an amended description:
    The first image is the beautiful radial skeleton of the Blue Button, or Porpita porpita, a colony organism (when alive), made up of cooperating hydroids. It drifts in the surface waters, using its stinging tentacles to capture small copepods, but will also hunt crabs and fish.
Next is a mollusc, which preys on the former, amongst other things.
    It’s the beautiful violet sea snail, Janthina janthina, a free-floating snail that uses a raft of bubbles to keep it on the sea’s surface where it preys on hydrozoa. (Unlike the first, this was taken back home with my D700, not the iPhone3GS).

    #photography #beach #macro #animals #iphoneography #iphone3gs #nikon

  18. Extreme self-decapitation in sea-slug: the head part is able to regenerate full body including functional heart and kidney in 20 days. It is a possible adaptive response to endoparasite infesting the body part. #science #biology #autotomy #gastropod #mollusc #seaslug #beheading #parasite
    📄 Mitoh & Yusa (2021) Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs. Current Biology 31:R233–R234 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.