#NotesFromOurNaturalists SEASHELL FORMATION Most summer visitors take seashells for granted. Some folks don’t understand what seashells are. Seashells are made by animals called mollusks (snails, clams, oysters, scallops). Seashells fall into two categories: univalves and bivalves. Univalves or snails have one shell. Clams, scallops, and oysters are bivalves and have two shells. Mollusks hatch from eggs. Snails are born with a tiny shell. As they grow, they add to the shell. They thicken the she

Read below and comment your thoughts! ⬇️ . Seashells get their color from their environment and what they eat. As they are alive, they eat other mollusks, fish and invertebrates with varying nutrients. . Shells living in warmer water climates, tend to be brighter colors due to the diversity of their food sources, whereas shells living in colder water climates tend to have cooler colors with less diversity of food sources. . When the creature dies, these colors can start to fade due to lack of nu