Shells in other animals
While not "shells" in the strict sense, a large variety of other animal taxa form exoskeletons of calcium carbonate, chiton or silica which are used for protection, locomotion, defence, structure or feeding. Other sea creatures relationship with a class of The construction of the shell-like...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=6&q=Shells_in_other_animals  - 12/19/2006

What Is A Shell?
by Lynn Scheu Shells are lovely natural objects, equals in beauty to any flower or butterfly, they are more than just pretty baubles found on beaches. They are the exterior skeletons (exoskeletons) of a group of animals called mollusks. ...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=7&q=What_Is_A_Shell_  - 12/19/2006

How to Collect Seashells
Seashells, also known by biologists as the exoskeletons of critters in the phylum Mollusca, are popular for collectors. Instructions STEP 1: Get more out of your collecting by learning what animals lived in the shells...
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Types of Mollusks
Written by Shireen Gonzaga and Marc Airhart Mollusks have adapted to an amazing range of environments. Clams and snails can be found living on mountains, in lakes and ponds, marshes, bays and estuaries, along sandy seashores, floating on the sea surface and living at the bottom of the sea,...
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How are seashells created? Or any other shell, such as a snail‘s or a turtle‘s?
The exoskeletons of snails and clams, or their shells in common parlance, differ from the endoskeletons of turtles in several ways. Seashells are the exoskeletons of mollusks such as snails, clams, oysters and many others. Such shells have three distinct layers and are composed mostly of...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=20&q=How_are_seashells_created__Or_any_other_shell,  - 12/19/2006

Crafting with Sea Shells
By Marie Browning, Marie Browning CreatesClean your shells you have gathered from the beach by scrubbing with soap and water. Bleaching the shell give them a weathered sun baked look and softens the hues thereby blending the look when displayed together. Mix a solution of half bleach and half...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=23&q=Crafting_with_Sea_Shells  - 12/19/2006

Terrestrial Shells
by Richard Goldberg Among the approximately 140,000 known molluscan species, just over one-third inhabit the continents and islands of the world. Fossil records indicate that the terrestrial or LAND SNAILS first...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=34&q=Terrestrial_Shells  - 12/20/2006

New Species - Terrestrial Shells
The Land Mollusk section of "News of New Species" is intended to provide a synopsis of information contained in the original description. The focus will be on new species descriptions of the larger, more popular groups ...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=35&q=New_Species___Terrestrial_Shells  - 12/20/2006

WHY DO WE COLLECT SHELLS?
by Deborah Wills There I was, thousands of miles from home standing in a crowded reception room one hundred feet above the ground in Seattle‘s Space Needle waiting for a napkin. The waiter‘s eyes had revealed his thoughts when I...
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oral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific: Animal life from Africa to Hawai‘i exclusive of the vertebrates
by Terrence M. Gosliner, David W. Behrens and Gary C. Williams. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California, 1996. 8"x10" format. Softcover. 320 pages, 1150 color photographs. $45.00 If you love sea life in all its sci-fi...
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Seashells of Eastern Arabia
by Donald T. Bosch, S. Peter Dance, Robert G. Moolenbeek and P. Graham Oliver. Edited by S. Peter Dance. Motivate Publishing, Dubai, U.A.E. 9.5" X 12.5" Hardbound. 296 pages. Many color and b/w photos, drawings, diagrams. map. $85 U.S. ...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=59&q=Seashells_of_Eastern_Arabia  - 12/20/2006

The World‘s Most Beautiful Seashells
by Leonard Hill and Pete Carmichael. 246 pp., 462 colored plates. Carmichael Publications, Tampa, FL. Hardback $29.95; softcover $22.95. ISBN 1-884942-00-8.    Without question the stunning photographs of the 460 species...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=60&q=The_World__145s_Most_Beautiful_Seashells_  - 12/20/2006

How to clean live seashells
It might be a good idea to check with local authorities where you will be gathering the sea shells as some areas prohibit the practice of collecting live specimens.  If you are lucky enough to gather some live sea shells there are a few methods of cleaning that can be...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=67&q=How_to_clean_live_seashells  - 12/20/2006

Shells in History
For much of human history, seashells have held a prominent place in our culture. They’ve been used as money, medicine, ornaments, and objects of art. They’ve been weighed, measured, sliced and cataloged by scientists. These natural wonders, strewn along beaches like jewels from the...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=72&q=Shells_in_History  - 01/12/2007

Dredging in North Brazil - August 2005
Dredging in North Brazil - August 2005 Jose Coltro Jr. and Dr. Paulo Marcio Costa I always wanted to go on a good dredging trip in a remote place. I tried in 1993 when I rented the oceanographic ship from the Rio Grande...
http://www.www.all-about-seashells.com/?id=98&q=Dredging_in_North_Brazil___August_2005  - 01/12/2007