Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by ...

The unusual mollusks of oceanic cold seeps--strange clams, mussels and sea snails that thrive in the sulfur and methane-rich environments--are on average older than the marine mollusk community as a ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the second floor of the Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

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Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of ...

“Some people may be a bit down on molluscs. My partner called them loser animals. But they’re one of the really major branches of life,” says Mark Sutton at Imperial College London. He and his ...

Scallops are strange. These little mollusk looks like a horror movie clams, with a row of tendrils and eyes inside its mouth. And then there are those eyes. According to research published today in ...

Tim Chaucer, director of the Milford Marine Institute, recently returned from his annual pilgrimage to Florida's nature coast to study native American coastal mound cultures in places such as Cedar ...