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• Sponge borings in Flat Oyster shells

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  Sponges are another type of marine organism which can be responsible for making holes in the shells of molluscs and in limestone or chalk rocks and pebbles. In earlier posts, the holes made by other sea creatures such as boring bivalved molluscs, and marine polychaete tube worms have been discussed. The type of ...
  6 days ago

• The Charm of St. Peter, Minnesota

  
  Travels with Children by minnemom — Authority: 127
  A tuna melt.  Such a silly thing, but it made my day.  For some odd reason, the idea of a tuna melt popped into my head a few days ago, and my anti-tuna husband declared if I was going to make such a sandwich, it should be on a day when he was away at mealtime.  Today, on a rare without-kids outing in St. Peter, ...
  1 week ago

• Lugworm casts at Whiteford Sands again

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  I couldn’t resist taking photographs of the lug worm casts on Whiteford Sands again. There seemed to be more than ever in October. I was struck by the patterns they made. First of all, the patterns within the worm casts themselves – the shape similar to the one you’d get if you had squeezed out the entire ...
  1 week ago

• Big Quahog Clam at Studland Bay

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  In the heavy, squally rain of last Friday, I found this really large and weighty living specimen of bivalved mollusc washed up on the sand at Studland Bay’s South Beach, Dorset. It doesn’t look like a common British species on account of its great size…and it isn’t. It is a Quahog – Mercenaria mercenaria ...
  1 week ago

• More clumped Flat Oyster shells

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  Here are five views from different angles of a single clump of recent shells. The clump comprises five European Flat Oyster shells, from at least three generations, attached to each other. Oyster larvae or spat are free-swimming for the first two weeks of their life and then they must settle on a hard object or ...
  1 week ago

• Flat Oyster shells with Polydora hoplura burrows

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  The evidence for infestation by Polydora hoplura Claparede in European Flat Oyster shells ( Ostrea edulis Linnaeus) is distinct from that caused by the related but smaller marine polychaete worm Polydora ciliata Johnston. [This kind of damage was described in the earlier post Ancient & modern Polydora ...
  2 weeks ago

• Driftwood with holes made by Gribbles & Shipworms

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  The photographs in this post show a small piece of water-logged driftwood about 30 cm long and riddled with holes and tunnels caused by two different types of wood-boring sea creatures. The larger borings are about 1 cm in diameter and many are lined with a smooth calcareous material that has become stained through ...
  2 weeks ago

• Natural pattern of seaweed on rock (5)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  A frond of the brown seaweed Sea Oak, Halidrys siliquosa (Linnaeus) Lyngbye on limestone rock platform at Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK, on the Jurassic Coast. © Jessica Winder and Jessica’s Nature Blog, 2009. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material, including both text and photographs, without express ...
  2 weeks ago

• Flat Oyster shells: right & left, inside & out

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  The shells of the European Flat Oyster are extremely variable but there are common features. In this post you can see examples of modern-day Flat Oyster shells: small, fresh, young ones and older beach worn ones. You can click on these photographs to enlarge them and see the details described in the text. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• More winkles on wood at Whiteford

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 131
  The storm waves shift the sediments around Whiteford Sands. They scour the sand away from some areas and dump it in others. The base of this ancient piece of wood seemed to be embedded in sand during the summer. The storm has washed it away to reveal a layer of  cobbles and pebbles holding it fast. Hundreds of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Darwin Letters to be Auctioned?

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 129
  News-Antique.com has an article on an upcoming auction to be held by Skinner Inc. of Boston on November 15 this year. According to the article the auction of fine books and manuscripts will include:...several Charles Darwin documents, gaining interest due to the recent passing of the 200th anniversary of his birth. ...
  5 weeks ago

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