Malacology - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/malacology/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Mon, 23 May 2022 14:53:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Malacology - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/malacology/ 32 32 103504436 Seashell Queen Reveals Most Common Treasures Found on Texas Beaches https://houstonnewmedia.org/seashell-queen-reveals-most-common-treasures-found-on-texas-beaches/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seashell-queen-reveals-most-common-treasures-found-on-texas-beaches Mon, 23 May 2022 14:53:09 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32303 As the Associate Curator of Malacology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Tina Petway is our resident queen of the seas. At 75 years young, the native Texan has spent her whole life walking along the nearly 3,400 miles of the Texas Gulf Coast sh...

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]]> 330660 HELIUM BALLOONS ARE KILLING MARINE LIFE IN THE THOUSANDS https://houstonnewmedia.org/helium-balloons-are-killing-marine-life-in-the-thousands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=helium-balloons-are-killing-marine-life-in-the-thousands Thu, 19 May 2022 20:35:43 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32290 Written by Tina Petway, Associate Curator of Malacology and Marine Invertebrates While we all love to watch things fly up into the sky such as helium balloons, we do not see them when they eventually come back to earth.  Unfortunately for marine and la...

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]]> 327869 From the Curator: Spikes and Spines https://houstonnewmedia.org/from-the-curator-spikes-and-spines/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-the-curator-spikes-and-spines Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:43:54 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=31775 What is so great about a Mollusk shell having spines or spikes? We could say they are pretty and even spectacular, and that would be true. However, they actually have a very specific purpose in the life of mollusks.  Let us imagine we are a Clam (...

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