Mollusk Unit (NC Museum of Natural Sciences)

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Grant: Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks on the Eastern Seaboard

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This creature looks fake with its googly eyes, but it is actually a Bobtail Squid, or Stubby Squid (Rossia pacifica).

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@HIROOKANAOTO Do you still sell this beautiful creation?

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This animal is a marine gastropod mollusk known as Thuridilla gracilis (often referred to as a sap-sucking sea slug or colloquially grouped with sea slugs/nudibranchs).​A tiny splash of electric blue and vibrant orange in the vast blue.

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Artwork with mollusks by Amy Richards inspired by the natural world.
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Drills and murex snails in the family Muricidae.
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Just here to share a snail comic ( :

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The McGinty’s Cyphoma is quite beautiful! #mollusk
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Harry George Lee (1940 – 2024) was an American physician, malacologist, paleontologist, and one of the world's foremost amateur authorities on mollusks.

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Learn about the Venus Comb Murex (𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘹 p𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘯) with Dr. José H. Leal.
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Follow our museum colleagues, led by Roland Kays, as they re-survey the Lewis and Clark trail across 16 states! The orange dot is where they currently are on their journey.
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Our very own Dr. Bogan has a new paper out on clams.
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Worm Snails
Most of the sea snails in this tide pool cruise around searching for food. But not the scaled wormsnail. It cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using the one thing a snail has plenty of mucus!
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Did you know the Division of Marine Fisheries maintains 43 ocean artificial reefs and 29 estuarine reefs, creating great spots for fishing and SCUBA diving?

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Meet Zandile Ndhlovu, South Africa's first black female freediving instructor! She founded The Black Mermaid Foundations, which exposes local communities to the ocean.