A seagull soars over the Dalian Shell Museum in northeast China's Liaoning Province on April 18. The museum is to open on May 1, covering an area of 2,000 square meters. As a largest museum of this kind in Asia, the museum is home to more than 8,000 varieties of modern seashells, and over 3,000 pieces of animal fossils, as well as many samples of mollusks (XINHUA) |