Within the animal kingdom, mussels are masters of underwater adhesion. The marine mollusks cluster atop rocks and along the ...

An ancient group of marine mollusks evolved two different ways to see — and the visual trajectory a species took may depend on a seemingly unrelated body feature, a new study suggests.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

“That’s insane!” “It’s finally happened!” Those are all comments dropped by the researchers as the marine mollusk appeared on camera. The footage gives scientists and ocean fans a rare ...

Watch Andreia Salvador, Curator of Marine Mollusca, take a look at one of the Museum's most extraordinary and precious pearls. Among the millions of bivalve molluscs in the Museum's collections, one ...

Well-designed marine parks can conserve marine life and their habitats, allow fish populations to recover, educate the public and support local economies. Marine scientists from Flinders University ...

Well-designed marine parks can conserve marine life and their habitats, allow fish populations to recover, educate the public ...

The animal features a unique grab bag of traits of other nudibranchs, says study co-author and MBARI marine biologist Steven Haddock. Haddock was present when scientists first spotted the mollusk, ...

Because red abalone are benthic (i.e., bottom-dwelling) species with limited mobility and are acutely susceptible to extreme events like marine heatwaves, these prized mollusks are classified as ...

The Mollusca collection is one of the most comprehensive and significant in the world, constantly in demand by the malacological research community. The type collection is the most scientifically ...

The work was done using genetic and genomic data for fish, mollusks and dolphins from South Australia's marine parks network. This large network of 19 multiple-use conservation parks was ...