Tag: sea snails
Horse Conch Called “Knobless Wonder”
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 […]
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Second Stop on Our January Boating Trip – Three Sisters
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 […]
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How Is A Seashell Made?
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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