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 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
Herman is confident that his father would be happy with his adoration for the mollusk, now chronicled in this beautiful cookbook.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
Some afternoons he leaves Marie-Laure in the laboratory of Dr. Geffard, an aging mollusk expert whose beard smells permanently of damp wool.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Scientists commonly interpret it as an early relative of mollusks.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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
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
He not realize he no can hear mollusks, like octopus, or other kine sea creatures.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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