The oyster's shell provides protection from predators. Oysters do not need to shed their shell because the eat and expel waste products buy opening their shells and pumping water in and out with hairlike structures call cilia.
Oysters and mussels do not shed their shells. They are bivalve molluscs and their shells grow larger with age.
Mussels do not shed their shells. They are bivalves and all bivalves just grow larger by adding material to their shells as they get older.
The oyster borer is adapted to bore through the hard shell of oysters using its specialized shell-crushing radula. It secretes an acid to soften the shell and has a muscular foot that helps it bore into the oyster. The oyster borer also has a tube-like body shape that allows it to navigate within the oyster shell.
no because it aproximetly grows with its shell so i belive it never does shed its shell but the average life span of a scorpion is 1-3 years so in that stage it probbly will lose its shell when it dies.
An oyster
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It is a shell, as in a cockle shell or oyster shell.
oyster shell are used to extract calsium which is used in medicine and health suppliments etc. also shell powder is used in making cement
The possessive form of the noun oyster is oyster's.Example:You're always hoping for a pearl when you open an oyster's shell.
Pearl
Paua shell or oyster shell (mother of pear)
with it's hard shell with it's hard shell