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What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common

7:56am November 23, 2024

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.

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Arcinella cornuta was included in a new study of fossil and extant bivalves and gastropods in the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers found that laziness might be a fruitful strategy for species survival.

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Survival Of The Sluggish: Scientists Find An Upside To A Low Metabolism

10:07pm August 24, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

A study of 5 million years of mollusks suggests that laziness could be a good survival strategy: species that have gone extinct had higher metabolic rates than the ones that exist today.