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"Mollusk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do the thinking and reasoning ourselves which we attribute to them. Thus Mr. Beebe in the paper referred to says: "Birds have early learned to take clams or mussels in their beaks or claws at low tide and carry them out of the reach of the water, so that at the death of the mollusk, the relaxation of the adductor muscle would permit the shell to spring open and afford easy access to the inmate." No doubt the advancing tide would cause the bird to carry the shell-fish back out of the reach of the waves, where ...
— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs
... progress of the animal kingdom every vestige is lost. If we turn a few pages in Dana's "Manual" we find in the sandstone of the "Devonian Era" gigantic species of fish. The entire record of evolution from the mollusk to the fish is lost! There is not a single transitional form. These fishes have organs as complex and perfect as the fishes of to-day. Suddenly, in the "carbonic age" amphibia and reptiles appear, and then come, in the "Triassic" ...
— Evolution - An Investigation and a Critique • Theodore Graebner |
Words linked to "Mollusk" : bivalve, scaphopod, Mollusca, mollusk family, lamellibranch, cephalopod, coat-of-mail shell, shell, carapace, shield, shellfish, gastropod, cuticle, polyplacophore, chiton, univalve |
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