How to pronounce “mollusks” in English

Mollusks are really one of the most strange, smallest, tough, ancient, and successful groups of animals on the planet.

Mollusks range from slugs and snails and squid and octopus.

Mollusks keep the same ones, just growing bigger and bigger.

So mollusks keep their shelves their whole life, unlike crustaceans, the crabs and lobsters will shed their shells and grow new ones.

on mollusks. Don't ask me why mollusks, I just, it was random.

I know there's mollusks, shrimp.

We think mollusks first evolved in the oceans about 500 million years ago.

Too many mollusks.

There's tons of cool stuff about mollusks that I was trying to talk about in the book.

So evolution hasn't taken mollusks and shells to all the possibilities that these simple rules could lead to.

when I'm talking about shells and mollusks and my book is what's my favorite shell and what's my favorite mollusk?

It's really different from to other mollusks, which have this thing called a mantle, which covers all of their body.

There were loads and loads of mollusks.

So there's all this hidden side to the lives of mollusks.

And if you look at lots of different mollusks, many of the gastropods with the spiraling shells, the snails, as well as these the natutilises,

uh, mollusks. But I did find out there's 75000 kinds of mollusks.

In Australia, eating fish and mollusks and whatnot, it goes on.

Alone, most of them are beetles but mollusks come in, I think, good second place, frankly.

But it's thought by some of the leading thinkers and scientists who work on mollusks that actually there could be more like 200,000 species, including

So I wanted living, diverse mollusks all over the cover.

How about a spiral of mollusks?

We've seen creativity and problem solving in non-human animals, like otters bang mollusks on rocks to open them, and ravens use tools.

So I wanted to tell partly the story about the wonderful creatures, the mollusks, that makes these shells.

And he's one of the people who really thinks there could be 200,000 species of mollusks.

They only ever make one shell, like the rest of the mollusks.

So I told Aaron-- so the two things I wanted to have on the front cover were lots of different species of mollusks.

And these were selected out for special treatment, some very beautiful mollusks, there.

And that was what separated the early cephalopods from all of the other snails, and mollusks, and other clams and things that were living on the sea floor.

So you'll see radulas in snails, even in clams, all kinds of different mollusks.

but you could Google it-- it is an art project where they programmed organisms to grow chitin, that is the shell that mollusks

but with one big exception, the cephalopods, a group of mollusks.

live in bottom of the sea, and frankly just look like worms, but they are still mollusks.

And we don't know for sure, because there's no-- up until now, there hasn't been a central catalog to list all the names of all the mollusks that have

And he basically spends his life going around the world, leading expeditions, trying to find as many mollusks as possible.

And what I wanted to capture too was some of the big discoveries and some of the big questions that scientists have thought about when it comes to shells and mollusks

There were some that would just be flimsy, and they wouldn't be competitive out there in the wild ocean and in places where mollusks live.

And there's a couple of reasons why I do genuinely think that argonauts are brilliant, brilliant mollusks.