Scraping the bottom of a river in Taiwan with a long-handled rake, a fisherman harvested clams. The hard-shelled, medium-sized creatures were tossed into a bucket. The harvest would end up at a market ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Prem Bahadur Budha is Nepal’s leading malacologist, having described 18 new-to-science species of mollusks, mostly land snails, from his homeland.

The symbiotic communities of invertebrates in dead coral gravel on the shallow, warm-temperate coast of the Kii Peninsula in western Japan. New bivalve species and sideswimmer have been found to live ...

Human activities rather than climate change are having a more devastating effect on mollusk communities, according to new research. An analysis of more than 70,000 fossils indicates that mollusk ...

Mollusk populations in the western Atlantic Ocean could see their range shrink by more than 60% as the planet overheats, threatening vital ecosystems and the global food supply. According to The ...

A new study assessed immune responses in four economically important marine mollusk species -- the blue mussel, soft-shell clam, Eastern oyster, and Atlantic jackknife clam -- and identified new ...

Mounting evidence suggests climate change represents an existential crisis that life on this planet has faced only a few times since microorganisms appeared 3.5 billion years ago. Some 99 percent of ...

An international team of researchers has discovered two new ancient mollusk species, and both seem to have sported some punky hairstyles back in their day. Fossil-based renderings of the mollusks ...

It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of excitement for some scientists. By Kate Golembiewski Mark Sutton, an Imperial ...

Seagrass meadows are an essential part of Florida’s coastal ecosystem. Jenny Adler Michal Kowalewski, University of Florida and Thomas K. Frazer, University of South Florida During a day at the beach, ...

Off the coast of Louisiana, scientists aboard a research vessel hauled up a box-like structure and began to take it apart. Inside, they found an orange sea creature with “bubble”-like blobs running ...

Before Los Angeles was developed, the San Gabriel chestnut snail was a common sight from Compton to the San Gabriel Mountains. But today, experts say, it survives only in the Angeles National Forest ...