Dan Killam

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Striped shore crab. It is a mottled green with purple pinchers
Photo from Wikipedia of the many colorations possible of Manila clams with most having radial stripes ranging from brown to black to even blue
a scientific freezer that fit through a doorframe with mm to spare
Underwater camera view from NOAA of 100s of scallops in a spawning aggregation
A hoverfly visiting a chicory flower in my yard. Its little feet point backwards in an amusing superman-like manner
Without those other young males, Neil is probably quite lonely. "Unfortunately, poor old Neil, he's probably looking for some of those things and is not really finding them," he adds, noting elephant seals will often sleep in large clumps, squished up against each other. “Often when you see him sleeping, you'll see him squished up against a fence, and that's probably part of him wanting to feel that there's something else there."
Map from USGS showing areas invaded by Corbicula, including most of the East and West coasts, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
Biden debating with Paul Ryan, putting his hands up to the heavens
Stop using anti-bivalve language! Instead of saying: Say this: “I'm clamming up.” “I'm taking time to myself.” “I'm happy as a clam!” “Clams have good days and bad, as do I!” “I had to shell out “It was a worthwhile for it” investment.”
A long oval shaped series of algal raceways. They are deep green amd move around the oval like lazy rivers
Donnie darko says I evolved a new body plan and his mom says new or tube in tube and he admits tube in tube
Figure from Brown and Erica 2024 showing diets of male and female oystercatchers. around 2/3 of their diet is sand crabs, with various bivalves making up about 1/3
An array of cages floating on pontoons. Each cage is full of mesh bags of oysters
An orange cat with a silly look on his face. Laying in a large tipped over box
A graph from wiki page view stats showing how methyl methacrylate went up from around 200 a day to about 60,000
Goofy looking really dumb and deranged saying I'll fuckin do it again
Figure Kim et al 2024 showing the different life stages of oysters. The last planktonic phase, when they are ~1/3 mm long features a little eyespot
A bowl of kinilaw. It is gray and somewhat slimy looking pile of shipworms. I don't mean to judge but I don't think I'd eat it except as a dare
Photo of C. rostrata. It is a small bivalve only about 1 cm long. Its shell js white with a long, thin tube coming out of one end.
A darkened theater. The roof is arched, semicircular, extending to back wall where there are murals. There is an ad on screen
An approximately 5 cm long ridged ammonoid with a hermit crab using its pincer to protect the opening at one end
The commissure (margin) of an Corbicula clam is visible bottom-up in the gravel of a sidewalk, photo by Tim Pearce
Picture from Wikipedia of a beautiful girthy geoduck. It has a 10-inch long siphon and is being held gingerly in two hands. Its valves are undersized compared to its fleshy, turgid siphon
A small golden colored Corbicula clam on a sandy substrate
View from a GEOMAR ROV showing a dense pile of gold colored Bathymodiolus mussels on a ocean hot vent, with pale colored crabs also scuttling around
A barreleye fish. It's eyes are within its head, pointed up contained within a transparent visor
Original shell formation in the shape of numbers 8,6,4,7 from @comey on Instagram saying cool shell formation on my beach walk
Sam Gamgee saying this is it, if I post one more fact it will be the weirdest clam you've ever seen
Clam Siphon ID Guide Gaper Clam Siphon tips fused together Tips have firm ring around them (hard to the touch) Inner ring of tentacles Leather-like flaps at tips, often encrusted with algae or barnacles Geoduck Siphon tips fused together Tips feel fleshy to the touch No tentacles Tips smoother - relatively free of debris Piddock Clam Siphons not completely fused (separated at tips) Tips feel slippery/slimy Pattern of white bumps and ridges
Angry manic laughing emoji
A native freshwater mussel encrusted by dozens of striped tiny zebra mussels. Photo from Minnesota DNR
Video from Seo and Seo 2025 showing a rotating 3d interior view of a Manila clam
Graphical abstract from the paper. We used mussels as a biomonitor of their food, including Alexandrium, a harmful plankton. We related that to genetic measures of their abundance to see what level the toxin, saxitoxin was accumulating in mussel tissue. We identified a threshold when the toxin was above baseline and then used that threshold to investigate a bunch of other plankton that cause harmful algal blooms, finding other types like Dinophysis (that gives people diarrhea), Heterocapsa (kills fish) and Heterosigma (caused a huge bloom that killed fish in 2022) increase above their baseline abundance at higher chlorophyll levels in fall
Anakin saying hes gonna publish about paleo in nature and padme asks including things outside chordata right. He just smirks and she repeats right?
Orange tabby tucked into a blanket like a sleepy baby
Acila cobboldiae from Wikipedia. It has a whitish exterior with some ornanemntation. Its interior is nacreous and the hinge is taxodont (many small interlocking teeth)
A map of SF Bay showing the locations of several moorings in South and Lower South SF Bay
The Mona Lisa
Fig from Yi et al 2023 showing a dissected mussel. Its gills have pale yellow fish embryos embedded. Close ups below show the pear shaped fertilized eggs embedded with the wide end inside the gill tissue. The more recognizable fish embryos are also visible in the gills
Isiah Whitlock with a camera saying shit, got your ass
Four heart cockles in different hues from ofange to yellow to purple. Photo by Tim Pierce, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
SEM image from Riisgard and Larsen 2026 showing the gills of a mussel. They are long filaments 50 microns across which are covered by branching featherlike patterns of cilia. There are frontal cilia looking like a shag carpet, and branching structures to the side of laterofrontal cilia.
Anakin saying 'I don't like sand'
A guy putting his finger up to disagree and realizing perplexedly he can't, so his finger goes down
Photo from National Museum Wales of Thyasira Goulding, a small pale white shell only a few mm long, with a cleft indentation at the posterior end
Google result for Zingiber officinale, saying Ginger Spice refers to Geri Halliwell (now Horner), a member of the iconic 1990s pop group the Spice Girls, known for her fiery red hair, Union Jack dress, and "Girl Power" slogan. The term can also refer to the culinary spice, ginger, a fragrant root used globally in cooking, teas, and candies, which is sometimes classified as an herb.
A tiny brown snail on stucco with my fingertips dwarfing it. It is only 3-4 mm long, shell is disc shaped and held laterally. Visible growth lines in the shell
Cover of Animals without backbones, classic textbook. A planarian, amoeboid and anemone are on the cover
Denethor dribbling tomato, ordering Pippin to sing him a song
Violator by Depeche Mode
A baking dish full of stuffed cabbage leaves
Kermit drawing a square
The grooved razor shell. It is a very long rectangle, looking like a closed straight razor
A mystery snail baby about 1.5 mm long. My fingertip is to the side, dwarfing it. It has a little foot, little golden shell and tiny little tentacles
Video showing a couple dozen small snails about 2 mm, adhered to the glass by my filter. Their empty egg mass is floating nearby. They have golden shells and tiny little sensory tentacles
A beach near Haifa covered by shells of the violet bittersweet
Nyt spelling bee where the word is bivalve
Boromir saying one does not simply stop a mollusc orgy, while mystery snails cruise around him and leave egg masses everywhere
Gennaro in jurassic park when the rex finds him on the toilet
Photo from Wikipedia of Arca zebra, showing its attractive chocolate brown zebra stripes and brown interior, and overall turkey wing shape giving it its common name