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.
Their shells grow as the organism grows
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.
No, armadillos do not shed their shells.
snails shed their shells and find new shells
Shells are a kind of external skeleton The shells grow by adding new material to the edges as the animal inside gets bigger in this way the animal is protected by its shell all the time and does not have to moult or shed their shell.
They don't shed or find bigger shells
No, they shed their shells regularily. that is where we get soft shell crabs from; crabs who have just shed their shells and are cooked. Like a snake shedding their skin.
Their shells are soft because they start to shed their shells.
Your mussels create lactose acid and some little strings of mussels rip and tear. To mend the mussels, eat calcium.
Clams donÕt basically grow; they actually shed their shells through a process called molting. After a few days, a new shell will grow on the shell edge of a clam.
they normally shed their shells, like crabs or snakes. (except snakes shed their skin).