Alternatively, you could cast the inside with opaque resin, mold the shell in silicone, dissolve the shell with the vinegar, then use the mold to cast a clear or translucent "shell" around the first cast.

Thinked just the same!

That would be amazing!

I think all ideas would be worth trying.

Great idea Leo.

I was looking to see if someone would mention that.

Wow the more you know :D Thanks for info ^^

Wait, so I can crush up shells and use them as makeshift Tums if I run out? Cause that's what I just heard.

@@ChrisHarings yes.

@@ChrisHarings no no no. tums is calcium carbonate, aka limestone. quicklime is calcium *oxide*... NOT calcium carbonate

Well a very soft skinned animal lives inside there.

God is amazing*

@@alphabeta8284 okay, but dont force that on others

@@yeetus5763 only the alphabet soup mafia and their delusional. Ideologies are the ones forcing things on people….. people who believe in God only want to spread his love

@@alphabeta8284 Don't know what you think he has to do with it, nature developed that all on its own, God didn't have anything to do with it...

@Stabbrz McGee. I liked your comment and appreciate your knowledge. I just wanted to clarify cause I did not know anything you said,lol.

@@kellydavis6316 🤦

@@kellydavis6316 Molten Aluminum + literally any amount of water=Explosion that likely turns hands if not face into charbroiled bits of meat and bone.

@@crimsonwizahd2358 thank you for kindly sharing your knowledge. Cool info. Love

@@kellydavis6316 boomer

yessssh, i cried for a while!! ....pun intended ;)

Cuckest statement ever

@@lanceanthony198 it’s called love, something you apparently never will experience with that kind of mindset.

@@lanceanthony198 someone's jealous.

A mans gotta respect the drip

I've got an old, old wooden Pepsi crate about half full of some sort of little cnidarians fossilized like that.

I've got a few chalk fossils like that too. It's quite cool :)

It's amazing to see that the screw was part of evolution by natural selection, so amazing.

@@ross-carlson One does wonder if ancient man playing around with such shells and fossils might be how the screw was conceptualized.

@@BrutishYetDelightful archemidese is a fossil bryazoan taxon, and an ancient Greek mathematician known for inventing the Archemidese screw. Also, those she'll mold fossils are known as steinkerns

Do a kickflip!

The legend himself.

It’s interesting that the shell interior is a spiral down which means the entire body is a spiral, organs and everything.

@@pr51 It makes you wonder, if the whole organism is spiral, and only one opening in the shell, does it womit, or poop next to it's mouth. Because there is bound to be indigestible matter in the food. Been trying to google it for a while, I don't believe it comes out from that spire like common garden snail. Nope, was wrong it actually is like a garden snail. Now I must wonder is there air deposit in side the shell to help it float, or is it as heavy or near as water itself, thus creating no weight.

Did you hear that squeak from the tissue paper?!

They're not natural?

@@Jayasree0627 we polluted the ocean with toxic heavy metals and mollusks are slowly cleaning our mess up, getting rid of the toxic stuff by incorporating into their seashell where it can't hurt them, there are also animals that are getting evolving to be darker because they use melanin to trap away the toxic metals. Pretty cool but also sad I guess, wish we humans had a mechanism like that because those metals are devastating to the brain kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7FyZMeqvdm4d4E.html

@@Jayasree0627 she means that heavy metals are in sea water so it will be in the calcium carbonate of their shell. Given that we eat a lot more seafood than breathe in shell fragments I doubt there’ll be enough to hurt you.

Antonia, let me guess . . . You live in California . . . Yes ? No ?

i am curious to what sea creature used it and how much of the inside it took up

Used to live in? That creature made that. Every shell hand made

@@chrishill6729 and likely the entire thing. Arthropods I think? They've got elastic bodies usually like a clam, but they anchor at the bottom with a foot and pull themselves in and out at will for defense

@@kanyeweast3255 Yes I know!

@@chrishill6729 Pretty sure it's body took up at least 1 less spiral than the shell, but would inflate itself with seawater to fill the entire shell when it was out and sliming around on one foot. Get a tube you loosely fit in from waist to shoulders, and carry it with it around you. Then try one you barely fit in. Which one is more stable with less effort?

Imagine having to explain to the snail what was done with part of its corpse.

You're weird; I like it.

Even when the snail was alive most of the shell would have been empty. The snail only lives in the widest chamber near the entrance.

@@Novusod It's still part of its body, it'd be like if your barber mentioned to you that they've been knitting a sweater from your hair clippings.

@hognoxious Just like fingernails, are they not a part of our bodies?

Seconded!!

Third. The inside of various shells would be very interesting.

Great idea!

I feel sad that the shell would get destroyed in this process as so please choose the shells carefully (common ones, not rare ones).

Fibonacci 😊

My socks don't look like that, lol.

Man dinosaurs must have had some weird feet

Did people used to think there were snails shaped like this when they found it or something?

I know a guy who cuts giant conch shells into sthin lices at various angles. Some similar type unique pieces of natural art.

@filippolo7 Would....Would....WOULD. Not Whould. Use spell check before correcting someone else.

My thoughts exactly!

@Chris Webb Thinking inside* of the shell? It's turtles all the way down

@filippolo7 Yep. It's one of my pet peeves. He actually meant the contracted form: *would've.*

OR, you could make a mold of the outside of the shell before you do any of the steps in the video. Much simpler.

@@antonliakhovitch8306 Sometimes people over engineer things! I came to say what you said!

Same thought. Dont destroy the shell. Use it as a negative cast pattern.

Could still use shell 2 for the negative, then cast the aluminum inside the resin... I think that would work well, and look amazing on a small wood stand

he'd need to create at least a couple of standoffs to suspend the aluminum in the resin... I suppose those could be drilled out and retro-filled with a bit of caution.

@@kaidwyer maybe only 1 at the point of the shell, would be cool to see!

@@Coupe420 Wouldn't the resin just melt / burn?

Now I do.

@@Papperlapappmaul :-)

only until it died .

Until it was cooked! 🤣

@@lezzman Oddly enough this species isn’t eaten, or at least not by humans. The shells wash up by the millions on the shores of India, Sri Lanka, etc. This species is itself a predatory carnivore.

Yet the people still believe it created itself so sad

@@alizcool1 yeah, some people actually think a "god" or something crazy like that made it 😂

Wherever u see a 'design', there must be a creator.

@@bengushlaw1379 Yep on the other hand you've got people that think things create themselves lol which one actually sounds crazier? Ohh fascinating look at this shell that the smart little crab wished into existence for itself..

@@bengushlaw1379 How is that a man borne from nature can use his intelligence to somehow come to the conclusion that the nature that he is borne from is unintelligent ?

@hognoxious Weird how I probably know exactly what you wanted to say ;-)

Seems like it's would be a bitch to clean, everything getting in those impossible to reach crevices.

@@chestnut4860 I'd get one.

I could see it if the casting was in epoxy.

That ant colony casting was very disturbing to watch.

That's the shape of the sea snail that lived in it. Beautiful creatures.

You could drill jelly or tapioca pudding, sure.

@@JoshuaCromarty i wanna see it drill jelly

@No Cap By polishing the aluminium to a bright shine. Aggressive little thing aren't you. You need to learn some manners and practice comprehension.

@@ihopetowin Ignore the trollfishers there always seem to be those guys who are seeking attention, classic trollfishing takes a lot more brain effort to preform, classic trollingfishing is fun, plain rudeness like this is not fun to read for anyone.

@@ihopetowin I think he read that as polishing the interior of the shell itself, and not the outside of the casting.

Yes, the texture is amazing.

@No Cap Get a life.

Would people shell out for this? It would make a nice pendant necklace.

I think it would be a bit much for a necklace.

bestel het online, op rommelmarkten vind je vaak schelpen voor paar euro

zoek een Wulk op het strand

@@hesusdanu170 Ga ik zeker naar kijken, dank je wel 👍👊

@@maartenperdeck798 Ik woon een endje van de zee, dus ik zal er een stel online opzoeken 👍😁

maak een mal giet er was in en je maakt van 1 schelp zoveel je wilt , kan je er meerdere gieten in 1 keer en eventueel verkopen als "juweel" ik zit jammer genoeg in de kans armoede en bezit te mogelijkheden niet (en in een studio kan je geen metalen gieten ............ je kan ze in metaal maken of resin in de mooiste kleuren je haalt je kosten er zo in 10 voud uit

Nature is a creation... Praise the all mighty creator.

@@gator966 If so, that all mighty creator is a horrendously bad designer... There are so many flaws and "design mistakes" found in nature that it is clear that he couldn't pass a basic engineering class if his everlasting life depended on it... Evolution is a fact, creationism is nonsense...

Why you would destroy real shell for some metal casting? Why? What happened to the time people would colour artificial shells to look like real ones? It is like now we want everything to look artificial! So it is ironic commenting "nature is beautiful designer" while we constantly avoid natural things. Look how wood textures are disliked and people colour over good quality wood.

@@velvet3784 Because you want to see what the inside actually looks like and admire its beauty? You know, like they did in this video? Who dislikes wood grain? I see it all over the place... You have a very different view of what people like and dislike about nature...

@@Kholdaimon Thank you! I couldn't have said it better myself.

That's what she said.

Would fit nicely in Torquemada's inquisition squads, though...

Why's it got to be BLACK?

@@nonyahbiznezz9094 Because that's what happens when stuff burns........it turns BLACK. Good grief, man. Stop looking for a reason to make something racist.

@@SqueakyCricket And "There we go!" Thank you for participating in my RAND sponsored Psychological Profiling trial exercise. (And no, this is not some hate group or KKK propaganda I'm laying down) With all the Save Black Lives shit going on out and about in our country the Caucasian man(I am Caucasian, by the way) present here in America has now been the target of past deeds that history says were evil, cruel and worse. It has been documented in the New England Journal of Science on African American Ancestry that African American as well as other foreigners were the first official sellers of human beings for slave labor here in the Americas. Need I say that again? (please read and digest what proceeds the last sentence) I personally have no connection, no inheritance financial, real estate or common beliefs of the white people who proceed me in lineage. Therefore do not even suggest that I am to be held accountable, to suffer retribution for anything I personally did not do. Apologies to those who feel offended or those who believe a more correct venue should be the place to bring out this topic. In closing I again reiterate, Do not attempt to lay blame on myself or other undeserving Caucasian individuals. We will not tolerate attempts to cage us and render us as the future victim in the never ending violence humans inflict upon each other.

@@nonyahbiznezz9094 You're nuts.