"Freshwater mollusks, invertebrates that protect themselves with a hard shell, fall into two major categories: gastropods--which have a single shell, such as snails--and bivalves--which have a double ...

For example, with the mollusks the team observed smaller scales around areas that would need more flexibility and larger scales in areas that might need more protection.

Earth's roughly 76,000 species of mollusks come in an impressive variety of forms including clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, slugs and even some possessing exceptional intelligence such ...

By taking a page out of nature’s playbook, scientists at Northwestern University developed a carbon-negative concrete through a process similar to how mollusks form their shells.