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With temperatures in the Florida Keys hitting their lowest points in nearly two decades, declaring the end of winter on ...
For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...
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Dissection might prove unnecessary when identifying new molluscs after scientists described a previously unknown land snail based on its genitalia, yet without damaging the specimen in the slightest.
Snails, mussels, squids -- as different as they may look, they do have something in common: they all belong to the phylum Mollusca, also called mollusks. Researchers have now carried out research into ...
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