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Mount Kaputar pink slug: The giant hot-pink mollusk found only on a single, extinct volcano
Name: Mount Kaputar pink slug (Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar' or Triboniophorus aff. graeffei) Where it lives: Mount ...
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Watch What Happens When This Giant Clam Opens Up
In the sand surrounding coral reefs, the giant clam reigns supreme; they are massive, multi-colored, and statuesque. As the ...
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Colossal squid — the world’s largest invertebrate — captured on camera in habitat for the first time
However, adult colossal squid can grow to lengths of 23 feet long and weigh 1,100 pounds, making them the world’s largest invertebrate — even bigger than the famed giant squid immortalized by ...
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Clams have a foot, muscles, and pearls inside of their shells
Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell ... And then there are giant clams, which can grow more than a meter long and weigh as much as 250 kilograms.
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The giant squid trawled by Falklands’ vessel preserved at London’s Natural History Museum
Most giant squid tend to be washed up dead on beaches, or retrieved from the stomach of sperm whales, so they tend to be in quite poor condition,“ Jon Ablett, mollusks curator at the London ...