Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...

This restaurant’s raw bar serves oysters so fresh they practically taste like the Chesapeake Bay itself. The welcoming facade ...

The construction industry is one of the world’s biggest sources of pollution, largely because it relies on materials like cement, sand, and gravel. Producing these materials requires large amounts of ...

Shell lovers, beachcombers and curious visitors have a reason to head to Sanibel Island Thursday. The 89th annual Sanibel Shell Show and Festival is officially underway, bringing three days of ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the second floor of the Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

Mollusks have produced many evolutionary innovations since they first appeared 540 million years ago, including spiral shells and a toothed tongue. A new study shows that about half of these ...

The construction industry is one of the most polluting due to its high contribution to CO 2 emissions. In addition to its significant environmental cost, its materials are made from nonrenewable ...

Matt is a sicko for retro FPS games, fighting games, Metroidvanias, roguelikes, and RPGs. Some of his current favorite games include the Final Fantasy series, Street Fighter 6, Slay the Spire, Path of ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium will host a Sunrise Shell and Mollusk Stroll on March 2 from 6 to 7:30 a.m. at the Lighthouse Beach Park, at 110 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel.

Sea mollusc shells are patterned not through conscious control, but by chemistry acting at the shell’s growing edge. A thin strip of tissue known as the mantle secretes both the shell material and its ...

LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab missed fourth-quarter profit expectations on Thursday with an 11% drop to the lowest level since early 2021 amid weaker oil prices, but kept its ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium will host a Sunrise Shell and Mollusk Stroll on Feb. 3 from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Lighthouse Beach Park, at 110 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel.