I recently received an email from a reader describing a shell he found washed up on a wintery beach, something he grew up calling a ‘half deck’ - as in, he clarified, a boat. He had included a photo ...

The Moskalev's Limpet is a small, cream-colored shell with a conical shape. This shell is found in the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean. Note to readers: This is Part 1 in a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A comparison of the safety factors of tropical and temperate limpet shells in the eastern Pacific yielded two results of significance. A ...

An international team has developed newly refined techniques for obtaining past climate data from mollusc shells. Mollusc shells are abundant in archaeological sites spanning the last 160,000 years.

Shellfish played a significant role in the diet of prehistoric coastal populations, providing valuable nutrients. They are a common find in archaeological sites all over the world, usually in huge ...