Intended as a versatile, all-day shelter for the wilderness, festival or even backyard, the Mollusc tent features a unique, nature-inspired flip-top construction. The dome tent is supported by an ...

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Kerry Walton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

How do sea molluscs create the consistent patterns on their shells? How do they know when and how to change the pigment?

Researchers think they may have solved enduring mystery of where Typhloesus wellsi sits on tree of life The mystery of a bizarre creature dubbed the “alien goldfish”, which has baffled fossil experts ...

Mollusc is a completely new kind of tent that opens and shuts like the worlds biggest pram hood. If the weather is good, draw back the entire canopy and bask in the sun, then if the rain comes in pull ...

The oldest known shell to have been engraved by an early human has been uncovered in a Dutch museum collection, where it remained unnoticed since the 1930s. The ancient mollusc, originally discovered ...

In early 2000, the scientists at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) were sitting in the control room for their deep-diving remotely operated vehicle when they saw a bizarre creature ...

"A new species of 'gigantic' mollusc has been discovered in the Antarctic waters." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 10 / 111006084232.htm (accessed January 6, 2026).

In what may sound like an idea out of the Swiss Family Robinson a team of scientists at McGill University in Canada has developed a new type of “unbreakable” glass that mimics the material inside of ...

Winner from shortlist of five will have its genome sequenced as scientists raise awareness of species’ amazing roles in nature From the sea butterfly to the naval shipworm to the barge-footer, a ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Reconstruction of a 390 million year-old multiplacaphoran … easy when you know how. Jakob Vinther/University of Texas at ...

A research team has reviewed the existing literature on compounds derived from molluscs used for treating respiratory diseases. This may provide clues for developing new drugs along with incorporating ...