In a cave in Cartagena, Spain, limpet shells and snails were found, collected in the same way modern humans would have done ...

Mollusks have produced many evolutionary innovations since they first appeared 540 million years ago, including spiral shells and a toothed tongue. A new study shows that about half of these ...

A newly identified, 500-million-year-old squid-like creature looked like a cross between a shrimp and a cartoon alien, but it was actually one of the world's oldest and most primitive cephalopods.

Mollusks, from land snails and slugs to oysters and mussels in the sea, have a few things in common. They have a head. They have a soft middle part that holds their organs. Then, some have a muscle ...

Learn about how mollusks create these shiny gems and how that biological process could change as Earth’s waters warm Abigail Eisenstadt Smooth pearls in the shape of orbs and ovals are usually created ...

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," said Juliet Capulet in William Shakespeare's famous play. And the same is presumably true for mollusks, albeit with different odors. When you think ...

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To help save the endangered black abalone, scientists are relocating some of the marine snails from the Channel Islands to the coast of mainland California. On a stretch of shore northwest of Santa ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Most people are used to seeing mussels on a dinner plate, steamed in white wine and swimming in garlic. But at Minneapolis Water Treatment and Distribution Services, 12 mussels ...