
Answering Common Seashell Questions
Answering common questions about seashells.
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Answering common questions about seashells.
Read More…When a reader left me a comment about my big horse conch photo, saying that it looked unusual, I began to look more closely at the horse conch photos I had taken and compare them with photos online. Apparently the horse conchs I usually find are called “knobless wonder”. This is because they lack the […]
Read More…Once we finished up at our first stop (read that post here), we boated up to Three Sisters which is a small group of mangrove islands in the backwater area of the Indian River. The tide was going out, which is my favorite time to beach-comb. We parked in behind the island and I searched […]
Read More…A mollusk is the animal living inside a shell. All mollusks begin as tiny creatures with genetic programming telling it how it will look – basically. Just like we have characteristics of our parents, the shell begins life looking like it’s ancestors. As the snail inside grows, the mantle continues to add calcium carbonate and […]
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