Scientists make game-changing discovery in crustacean shells: 'We can turn this trash into a treasure'

As detailed by Anthropocene, researchers found a way to extract an organic polymer known as chitin from crushed crustacean ...
Yahoo

Where do seashells come from?

Seashells are so plentiful that you may sometimes take them for granted. Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion ...
The Conversation

Empty mollusc shells hold the story of evolution, even for extinct species. Now we can decode it

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Kerry Walton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...