Archive for the 'Egg Cases' Category
The strand of half dollar sized pods is an egg case. Actually each pod has about twenty tiny animals in each pod.
The tiny animal that will grow up from this egg case is the knobbed whelk. This is basically a northeast version of a conch (pronounced conk). If you hold the tiny discs up to [...]
They are egg cases for a juvenile skate. The skate is related to sharks and rays. Sharks, skates and rays all have a skeleton made up of cartilage – the bendy material that is found in our noses and ears.
One tiny skate will hatch from each egg after nine months – hatching under the surface [...]
