Shell museum to present final lecture in series
In celebration of its 25-year anniversary milestone, the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum is presenting a lecture series available virtually and free of charge via Zoom. Extending through the fall, it will spotlight some of the diverse connections between shells and different fields of human endeavor.
The next and final lecture in the “Celebrating 25 Years” series is:
– Oct. 20 at 5 p.m.: “Spooky Mollusks and Other Evils of the Deep: A Halloween Special” with Dr. José H. Leal, Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum science director and curator
In an entertaining yet informative format, the lecture will introduce the myriad of ways that selected marine mollusks live, and die. To celebrate Halloween and in genuine vampire-seeking fashion, Leal will unmask the shocking lifestyles of ghastly and bloodcurdling mollusks. Get acquainted with vampire squid and snails, clams that live entombed for life, grave-robbing and corpse-eating snails, parasitic micromollusks addicted to blood, and other harrowing creatures of the molluscan universe.
The series is free, but registration is required at ShellMuseum.org/lecture-series.
Recordings of the previous lectures can also be viewed at ShellMuseum.org/lecture-series.