Many marine organisms, including corals, build skeletons from calcium carbonate – in the form of calcite or aragonite. The current composition of seawater favors the formation of aragonite – but soft ...

Living colony of the cheilostome bryozoan Myriapora truncata, one of the species Museum scientists are using in their research on the effects of ocean acidification Focus: investigating the timing of ...

For many years, the structure of natural shell samples has attracted a great deal of interest from Material Scientists as well as Researchers in the Biological Sciences field [1]. The reason for this ...