mollusk
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This humble mollusk is a vital source of income and nutrition for many coastal residents.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
The mystery mollusk is the first known nudibranch to live in a deep-water column, specifically in the ocean’s midnight zone — open water about 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
The oyster farmer, Will Peckham, 31, for example, left a job in corporate finance in the city to start West Robins Oyster Co., a mollusk farm in Peconic Bay about seven years ago.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
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
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
But as it turns out, one group of marine mollusks was way ahead of us.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
The mollusks are efficient filter feeders and can increase the clarity of water by consuming large quantities of plankton, which native fish and other creatures depend on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
The so-called “hot girl food” is exactly what its name suggests: processed seafood — namely sardines, anchovies, salmon, mollusks and shellfish — that’s neatly packaged and presented in a peel-back, often decorative tin.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
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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