Anthropologists have identified beads made from shells in North ... Then the conversation turned to methods for separating mollusks from their shells. One low-tech approach is to leave the shells ...

To begin the process, a skilled technician takes mantle tissue from a sacrificed mollusk of the same species and inserts a shell bead along with a small piece of mantle tissue into a host mollusk’s ...

Bivalve shells from the Pinnidae family share a ... with species from the Pteriidae family or various freshwater mollusks from the Hyriopsis genus that are frequently used to produce non-bead-cultured ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells ...

A. Picasso isn’t the only of the new microsnails with a name inspired by the arts either; a species discovered from Myanmar ...

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 ...

Small mollusk shells dotted their surface; a crab scuttled out of frame. “Quite amazing, really, isn’t it?” murmured John Matheson, a shaven-headed Scot supervising the ROV team. As ...

Dirt removed from the dig site is carefully screened by volunteers as MCBONES also collects small objects, such as beetle wings, ground-squirrel teeth, mice bones and mollusk shells. Changes in ...