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Beautiful
photographs of stunning shells from
London's Natural History Museum, home to
one of the most significant and
comprehensive collections in the world.
Collected and treasured for their beauty,
used in religious rituals, or even traded
as currency, shells have fascinated humans
for millennia. Ancient and enchanting,
dazzling in form and variety, these
beautiful objects come from mollusks, one
of the most diverse groups in the animal
kingdom, including snails, oysters,
cuttlefish, and chitons. Soft-bodied,
these creatures rely on shells for
protection from enemies and their
environments, from snowy mountains to arid
deserts, in deep-sea hydrothermal vents
and the jungles of the tropics, on rocky
shores, and in coral reefs.
In this book, mollusk expert Andreia
Salvador profiles some of the world’s most
beautiful and quirky shells, each selected
from the more than eight million specimens
held in the collection at London’s Natural
History Museum. We lock eyes with the
hundred-eyed cowry, named after "the
all-seeing one," the giant Argus Panoptes
of Greek mythology. We see how shells'
appearances translate into defense
strategies, as with the zigzag nerite,
which varies its patterning to deceive and
confuse predators. And we meet shell
inhabitants, such as the amber snail,
which eats earthworms by sucking them up
like spaghetti. Reproduced in full color
and striking detail, these shells have
much to reveal about the history of
collecting, the science of taxonomy, and
the human desire to understand the natural
world.
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