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Table top at Petworth NT made of gastropod-rich limestone, probably the so-called Petworth Marble, a variety of Early Cretaceous Wealden Marble.

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2022-09-26

Another 'weird wonder' funding a home on the evolutionary tree of life? The Typhloesus had a mollusc-like radula and preyed on conodonts.

https://t.co/6WBXGb6QUS

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2022-09-21

This why not find out about our shell collections and the curators who work with them: https://t.co/ERBV2CX7QO

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2022-08-15

From my photographic archives, scallop shells decorating a wall in Hokkaido, Japan

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2022-07-04

We are happy to announce that, following our conference postponement last year, registrations for are now open! November 28-December 1 2022; Gold Coast, Australia. Check out all the details here: https://t.co/ZKZeAwWO27.

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2022-06-20

🐙🦑🐌🐚For check out these cool illustrations. —Download them + many more illustrations of octopi, squid + cuttlefish species (+ other plants + animal illustrations!) here: https://t.co/D6jWPB8hgo via

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2021-10-26

How squid trousers/pants. Non paywall version.

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2021-08-25

For Mollusc Monday I'd like to celebrate images of molluscs in Japanese woodblock - woodcut was the first printmaking I did and I loved the grain - these terrifying human-mollusc encounters are by the wonderful artist-makers Yoshitoshi and Katusushika Hokusai

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2021-02-08

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Argonauta argo (Linnaeus, 1758)

vern. Paper nautilus, Argonauta
pics 1, 2, 3 via sciencefriday, 4 via otchegopomogaet

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2021-01-18

Our review on "deciphering mollusc shell production" is out today in Biological Reviews. My PhD Thesis intro chapter is incorporated into sections V & VI plus review covers a huge range of perspectives from Marie Curie CACHE ITN

https://t.co/ntDQ1sgxi8

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2020-08-03

The candy cane snail (Liguus virgineus) is a mollusc endemic to the Caribbean island of La Española (Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The first illustration of this arboreal snail was published in 1684 in “Recreatio Mentis et Oculi” by Filippo Bonanni.

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2020-06-08

The rainbows in so many windows certainly do lift the spirits in these difficult times. Here is one made out of colourful shells in our collection at to help you through another day

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2020-04-02

The World’s First Encyclopedia of Octopus and Squid! 🦑🐙—by Marine Biologist Carl Chun, ca 1910. —"While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie,” https://t.co/xydtJdWPdA —Happy

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2020-03-17

Last week we focused on the core, now it’s time for glutes.

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2020-02-24

Hey! Remember that slug from my Well, I’m going to do a slug comic EVERY Monday, and I’m going to call it (or depending on what flavor of English you prefer).

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2020-02-10

🐙Happy —Download these cool illustrations and many more illustrations of octopi, squid, and cuttlefish species (and other plants and animals) via . —https://t.co/D6jWPB8hgo 🦑🐙

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2020-02-04