Patterns on a shell are produced similarly to a tiger’s stripes and a leopard’s spots, explains one reader Sea mollusc shells are patterned not through conscious control, but by chemistry acting at ...
Three shells in visible light (top), UV light (middle) and with colours reversed (bottom), showing that the strongest glow is associated with the darkest pigmentation.PLOS One/J. Hendricks If you’ve ...
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