Sentence examples for mollusk-like from inspiring English sources

DENVER--Scientists have excavated near the Arctic Circle in Russia what they believe are the oldest fossils of a mollusk-like animal.

The fossils appear to have a mollusk-like mouth and may have had muscles under their shell similar to those of modern-day mollusks.

Fedonkin and Waggoner (1997) have also described mollusk-like animals from the same period.

Bottom-dwelling mollusks like clams and snails took much longer to recover.

There are also mollusks, like the cone snails, that can kill.

The Moroccan fossils include sponges, worms, trilobites and mollusks like clams, snails and relatives of the living nautilus.

Mollusks, like clams or mussels, contribute delicious juices; tiny cockles are best in this role (steamers or oysters are too sandy).

Collectively, these results reinforce the existence of the TNF signaling cascade in mollusks like disk abalone, further implicating the putative regulatory behavior of TTRAP in invertebrate host pathology.

The filter-feeders -- clams, oysters and other mollusks like mussels and scallops -- can accumulate waterborne bacteria, viruses or toxins that can cause severe gastrointestinal problems when the shellfish is eaten uncooked.

The researchers made the discovery while studying a species of brachiopods, or lamp shells, which live in shells but are marine worms unrelated to mollusks like clams and oysters.

Crocodylian diversity exploded thanks to the food supplied by plentiful mollusks like clams and snails, LiveScience reports.