snail as old as time
song as old as slime
mollusc and the beast
song as old as slime
mollusc and the beast
November 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
snail as old as time
song as old as slime
mollusc and the beast
song as old as slime
mollusc and the beast
the bearded mollusc strikes again
November 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
the bearded mollusc strikes again
You'll never guess where I found this
November 1, 2026 at 6:56 PM
You'll never guess where I found this
Because the "someone's" have the brains of a mollusc or are racists or hold a grudge.
November 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Because the "someone's" have the brains of a mollusc or are racists or hold a grudge.
The largest, sub-annual temperature dataset from archaeological mollusc shells yet.
Over 120 records provided a seasonal assessment of the climatic conditions around the 8.2k event on a scale directly relevant to human behaviour.
🏺🧪🐚
#OpenAccess
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Over 120 records provided a seasonal assessment of the climatic conditions around the 8.2k event on a scale directly relevant to human behaviour.
🏺🧪🐚
#OpenAccess
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
On-site, subannual climate records decouple Neolithic expansion from climate instability | PNAS
How the life of prehistoric people was influenced by climate change and extreme events
often remains elusive. Finding appropriate spatiotemporal sc...
doi.org
November 3, 2026 at 6:23 AM
The largest, sub-annual temperature dataset from archaeological mollusc shells yet.
Over 120 records provided a seasonal assessment of the climatic conditions around the 8.2k event on a scale directly relevant to human behaviour.
🏺🧪🐚
#OpenAccess
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Over 120 records provided a seasonal assessment of the climatic conditions around the 8.2k event on a scale directly relevant to human behaviour.
🏺🧪🐚
#OpenAccess
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Hallowed be thy Ween, for The Mollusc is a good album
October 31, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Hallowed be thy Ween, for The Mollusc is a good album
I plan to self-identify not as a lamp but as a live bivalve mollusc from class B waters entering the EU for depuration.
(maybe I should research depuration first)
(maybe I should research depuration first)
November 3, 2026 at 8:57 AM
I plan to self-identify not as a lamp but as a live bivalve mollusc from class B waters entering the EU for depuration.
(maybe I should research depuration first)
(maybe I should research depuration first)
A remarkable new species discovery - the Mauritian Tidal Trapdoor Spider Idioctis marevallum lives in fossilized worm and mollusc burrows in inter-tidal coralline rocks (it also engenders the sort of spider headlines we like to see!). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spider found in Mauritius like discovering 'hidden treasure'
The new species of trapdoor spider is discovered by scientists from Durrell working in Mauritius.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2026 at 7:10 PM
A remarkable new species discovery - the Mauritian Tidal Trapdoor Spider Idioctis marevallum lives in fossilized worm and mollusc burrows in inter-tidal coralline rocks (it also engenders the sort of spider headlines we like to see!). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
9/15 On rare occasions, Shark Bay dolphins have been observed lifting large mollusc shells out of the water.
We know relatively little about this behaviour, since documenting it often depends on someone happening to witness such an event.
(paper, 2010) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We know relatively little about this behaviour, since documenting it often depends on someone happening to witness such an event.
(paper, 2010) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
9/15 On rare occasions, Shark Bay dolphins have been observed lifting large mollusc shells out of the water.
We know relatively little about this behaviour, since documenting it often depends on someone happening to witness such an event.
(paper, 2010) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We know relatively little about this behaviour, since documenting it often depends on someone happening to witness such an event.
(paper, 2010) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
arguably the most bug-coded mollusc out there
October 30, 2026 at 12:50 AM
arguably the most bug-coded mollusc out there
#recordoftheweek #cofnodyrwythnos is Limacus maculatus, the Green Cellar Slug found in Pembrokeshire by Anna Simpson and recorded using the #lercwalesapp
Many thanks for sending in your records.
#mollusc #slugs #wwbic #recording #westwales #pembrokeshire
Many thanks for sending in your records.
#mollusc #slugs #wwbic #recording #westwales #pembrokeshire
November 2, 2026 at 11:05 AM
#recordoftheweek #cofnodyrwythnos is Limacus maculatus, the Green Cellar Slug found in Pembrokeshire by Anna Simpson and recorded using the #lercwalesapp
Many thanks for sending in your records.
#mollusc #slugs #wwbic #recording #westwales #pembrokeshire
Many thanks for sending in your records.
#mollusc #slugs #wwbic #recording #westwales #pembrokeshire
4. Eocene- Basilosaurus features, but being a mollusc-focused shallows hunter it's not actually the main threat to humans- that's the gigantic sea snake paleophis, plus some early ancestors of megalodon
3. cretaceous- it's hell's aquarium, innit
3. cretaceous- it's hell's aquarium, innit
October 31, 2026 at 7:10 PM
4. Eocene- Basilosaurus features, but being a mollusc-focused shallows hunter it's not actually the main threat to humans- that's the gigantic sea snake paleophis, plus some early ancestors of megalodon
3. cretaceous- it's hell's aquarium, innit
3. cretaceous- it's hell's aquarium, innit
Secretly a mollusc in a coat looking for the snail mail.
November 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Secretly a mollusc in a coat looking for the snail mail.
The unmistakable sound of Underwater Mollusc coming your way, right after Grandmothers From Hell
#johnpeel #johnpeelbandnames
#johnpeel #johnpeelbandnames
November 1, 2026 at 2:10 AM
The unmistakable sound of Underwater Mollusc coming your way, right after Grandmothers From Hell
#johnpeel #johnpeelbandnames
#johnpeel #johnpeelbandnames
The other molluscs travel with mussel Clams, oysters, scallops, and cockles are molluscs, the same shellfish group as mussel, and they share tropomyosin, so a child allergic to one mollusc is often allergic to others.
https://checkeverylabel.com/mussel-allergy/
#foodallergy
https://checkeverylabel.com/mussel-allergy/
#foodallergy
November 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The other molluscs travel with mussel Clams, oysters, scallops, and cockles are molluscs, the same shellfish group as mussel, and they share tropomyosin, so a child allergic to one mollusc is often allergic to others.
https://checkeverylabel.com/mussel-allergy/
#foodallergy
https://checkeverylabel.com/mussel-allergy/
#foodallergy
Chaetoderma shenloong is a worm-shaped mollusc that lives around cold seeps. It obtains its nutrients from symbiotic microbes that can convert surrounding chemicals into food.
Those microbes are housed in special organelles called "dracosphera" - i.e. "Dragon Ball" 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Those microbes are housed in special organelles called "dracosphera" - i.e. "Dragon Ball" 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 31, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Chaetoderma shenloong is a worm-shaped mollusc that lives around cold seeps. It obtains its nutrients from symbiotic microbes that can convert surrounding chemicals into food.
Those microbes are housed in special organelles called "dracosphera" - i.e. "Dragon Ball" 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Those microbes are housed in special organelles called "dracosphera" - i.e. "Dragon Ball" 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A multilamellar organelle for chemosymbiosis in an aplacophoran mollusc adapted to anoxic cold seep sediment | Nature Communications
A multilamellar organelle for chemosymbiosis in an aplacophoran mollusc adapted to anoxic cold seep sediment - Nature Communications
Animals living in the deep sea often form symbiotic partnerships with chemosynthetic bacteria. Here authors discover a multilamellar organelle in the worm-mollusc Chaetoderma shenloong containing bacteria and name it dracosphera (‘dragon ball’).
www.nature.com
October 31, 2026 at 3:56 AM
A multilamellar organelle for chemosymbiosis in an aplacophoran mollusc adapted to anoxic cold seep sediment | Nature Communications
This polished rock is a chunk of iron pyrite: 180 million years ago, even before many of the most famous land-dwelling dinosaurs ever existed, a marine mollusc died and slowly became this ammonite [📹 Yorkshire Fossils]
Original post
Original post
October 26, 2026 at 9:53 AM
This polished rock is a chunk of iron pyrite: 180 million years ago, even before many of the most famous land-dwelling dinosaurs ever existed, a marine mollusc died and slowly became this ammonite [📹 Yorkshire Fossils]
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🎃 Happy International Day of the Sea Slug!
Meet the Warty Doris, one of Sussex's strangest seabed residents. With its wart-covered body and bizarre spiral egg cases, it looks more Halloween monster than marine mollusc.
Nature is wonderfully weird. 👻🌊
#SeaSlug #InternationalSeaSlugDay #Halloween
Meet the Warty Doris, one of Sussex's strangest seabed residents. With its wart-covered body and bizarre spiral egg cases, it looks more Halloween monster than marine mollusc.
Nature is wonderfully weird. 👻🌊
#SeaSlug #InternationalSeaSlugDay #Halloween
October 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM
🎃 Happy International Day of the Sea Slug!
Meet the Warty Doris, one of Sussex's strangest seabed residents. With its wart-covered body and bizarre spiral egg cases, it looks more Halloween monster than marine mollusc.
Nature is wonderfully weird. 👻🌊
#SeaSlug #InternationalSeaSlugDay #Halloween
Meet the Warty Doris, one of Sussex's strangest seabed residents. With its wart-covered body and bizarre spiral egg cases, it looks more Halloween monster than marine mollusc.
Nature is wonderfully weird. 👻🌊
#SeaSlug #InternationalSeaSlugDay #Halloween
The host mollusc burrows into anoxic mud to supply hydrogen sulfide to symbiotic bacteria. Symbiont can respire anaerobically, but prefers aerobic respiration. But the host can only respire aerobically. By enclosing symbionts in dracosphera, the host can keep the available oxygen for its own use.
October 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM
The host mollusc burrows into anoxic mud to supply hydrogen sulfide to symbiotic bacteria. Symbiont can respire anaerobically, but prefers aerobic respiration. But the host can only respire aerobically. By enclosing symbionts in dracosphera, the host can keep the available oxygen for its own use.
Somewhere 40 cm under oxygen-free mud in the South China Sea, a shell-less wormy mollusc ditched most of its gut and now farms sulfur bacteria inside bubbles with 20+ membrane walls. New organelle, named "dracosphera" after Dragon Ball. In @natcomms.nature.com *burp* Peak nerd. I approve.
November 1, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Somewhere 40 cm under oxygen-free mud in the South China Sea, a shell-less wormy mollusc ditched most of its gut and now farms sulfur bacteria inside bubbles with 20+ membrane walls. New organelle, named "dracosphera" after Dragon Ball. In @natcomms.nature.com *burp* Peak nerd. I approve.
A mollusc could appear to be a "real genius" depending on the observer's own level of intelligence.
October 29, 2026 at 12:41 PM
A mollusc could appear to be a "real genius" depending on the observer's own level of intelligence.
What did I do today? Well, I spent several hours researching linen-making and sea-salt production via evaporation for a TTRPG module. Also I had to read up on hemocyanin in mollusc blood for the same reason. You know, the usual. Just a normal, typical day.
October 28, 2026 at 3:05 AM
What did I do today? Well, I spent several hours researching linen-making and sea-salt production via evaporation for a TTRPG module. Also I had to read up on hemocyanin in mollusc blood for the same reason. You know, the usual. Just a normal, typical day.
Clam strips, peppery goodmeat leafy wraps, wormy leafy wraps, mollusc mix..
October 26, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Clam strips, peppery goodmeat leafy wraps, wormy leafy wraps, mollusc mix..