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How do seashells form?

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Seashells are created by snails. When snails are first born, their skins are soft, then they harden and calcify and detach from the rest of the body. They continuously grow around their own shells more and more, which is where the spiral comes from. When the snails die, the soft portion decays and the hard shell remains. More Some shells are also those of clams, scallops, or oysters. Depending on the location, any of these might be more numerous than the shells of snails. In any case, the process of formation is similar: A soft-bodied mollusk secretes calcium carbonate which accumulates as the shell as the animal grows, then the empty shell remains when the animal dies.

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they are formed by different species of invertebrates, they pull the material that the shell is made out their environment, the material is usually calcium carbonate

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Can you tell me how seashells are formed and how?

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How an eggshell forms in side the mother's body, by all of her food and fat comes to gether and makes a shell.her fat seals it together.

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By Eating Urine

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through birth

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