Feeding time! This Lightning Whelk (Sinistrofulgur sinistrum) is finishing feeding on a clam purchased live from a local grocery store. Lightning Whelks are predators of bivalves, but they usually keep their prey grasped in their foot and hidden from our view during feeding. This rare shot of the animal's extended proboscis (the long appendage that looks like an elaphant trunk, which has the mouth at the end) happend during one of our daily Tank Talks last week. Come see our live mollusks during