mollusk
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The mollusk lights up using bioluminescence when threatened to distract predators, researchers said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
Porosity is known to affect the structural integrity of mollusk shells, making shells weaker and potentially more susceptible to damage.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2023
She showed Will and Lyra how to gather a particular kind of mollusk by finding their breathing tubes just above the sand.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
In contrast, only about half of mollusks, including clams and snails, disappeared.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
“People We Meet on Vacation” “Six years after ‘My Octopus Teacher,’ we find there’s still much to learn from eight-limbed marine mollusks in ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures.’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
A radioactive wasp’s nest was found at a decommissioned nuclear worksite in South Carolina, and a thriving community of tube worms and mollusks was located at the bottom of deep-sea trenches in the Pacific.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025
Speaking of what makes up this most delicious and fragrant stew and despite the name, go on and include shellfish: crustaceans, mollusks or bivalves, anything you like.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025
For adult mollusks there is apparently less danger of direct poisoning, at least by some of the pesticides.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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