HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:49:08 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:49:08 GMT etag: "15c4527812bd54102fee6189124d689f" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 4.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=338.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:49:09 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:49:09 GMT etag: W/"04a030a4b7963cc4146cb54a90695f52" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=355.0 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:17:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/friday-links/#comment-292 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:17:14 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=577#comment-292 Ooh ooh ooh I love Melibe! Have you ever seen them in person? Did you know they smell like watermelon? It’s totally weird and amazing!

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/mollusks-ive-met-chitons/#comment-288 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:11:33 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=547#comment-288 Oh man, chitons are so amazing! Lovely photos. I remember seeing a talk about some weird sensory organs in deep-sea chitons, but a cursory googling sheds no light on the subject.

The Daily Nexus link triggered a wave of nostalgia for my alma mater. =)

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/spsa/#comment-275 Tue, 17 May 2011 10:05:01 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=523#comment-275 Hi, great blog. Please sign me up to the Society for the Prevention of Seashell Atrocities.
Keep up the ggod work!
Darren.

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/sneak-preview/#comment-257 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:18:33 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-257 Nice! Have you seen this one: https://www.steampunkmagazine.com/weekend-links/bronze_octopus_by_thisisfake1234-d36f1m8/

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/octopuses-spotted-in-new-york/#comment-251 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:03:47 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=509#comment-251 Octopiary is awesome. You have to post more pictures when it fills in! I hope the plant is deciduous so it can camouflage itself to match the seasons . . .

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/about/#comment-249 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:59:50 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-249 Hello, I was wondering if you were interested in joining the The International Teuthological Society. It is a free organisation dedicated to awareness, conservation, research and appreciation of cephalopods. I love your blog, and though you and any other fellow cephalpodophiles you know that might be interested. We have an official facebook group that we ask you to join, and our name is legally protected by copyright. Membership is free, but we encourage members to donate to museums, conservation organisations, research and labs, and even to the society it’s slef. The eventual goal of the society is to open a museum of teuthology, wherin will be contained at least one representative from each cephalopod genus. We promote the ethical treatment of the cephalopod, and ask members to abstain from consuming calamari and other cephalopod based foods, in light of the animal’s extreme intelligence. I hope you are interested.
President and founder
Maxwell Stewart

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/lifes-tough-choices/#comment-248 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:35:55 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=502#comment-248 Awesome photo! I have a soft spot for chitons…

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/circus-of-the-spineless-59/#comment-224 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:02:17 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=456#comment-224 Love the way you mixed this up! I had no idea Icanhascheezburger was such a fertile ground for arthropod humor…

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/circus-of-the-spineless-59/#comment-223 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:29:34 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=456#comment-223 […] carnivals awaits you:Carnival of Mathematics #74 – The Tungsten EditionCarnival of Space #183Circus of the Spineless #59Friday Ark #325Grand Rounds Vol 7 No 20I and the Bird CXLIII This entry was posted in Biology, […]

]]> https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/circus-of-the-spineless-59/#comment-221 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:41:11 +0000 https://shellandmantle.wordpress.com/?p=456#comment-221 Thank you for hosting. That photo of the black widow spider was taken in my tack room. I had an infestation of them that eventually required treatment. For a while, getting the saddle and bridle out was a bit sporty.

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