A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about early animal evolution. A strange and spiny fossil, once thought to be ...

Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is ...

By all accounts, freshwater mussels are boring creatures. From the time they fall off their host fish as a larva and settle ...

They belong to an ancient group called Aculifera, distant relatives of today’s chitons, oval-shaped marine animals that cling to rocks with shells resembling medieval armor. “Mollusks are one ...

"I've always been impressed by what octopuses can do, but this was bizarre," said study co-author Norman, senior curator for mollusks at ... "An octopus without shells can swim away much faster ...

While many people can open a mollusk, "not everyone can open them without breaking them," said ... thrusting the tip into a corner of an oyster shell and flicking it. The Well Fleet’s shell ...

The shells of certain mollusks like the heart cockles of Venus contain natural ... Aragonite in the shells has unique properties: it channels light without protective coating. This naturally optimized ...

Heart cockles are bivalve mollusks that resemble clams. And like clams, they have a symbiotic relationship with the algae that live inside their shells ... only without the cladding covering ...

The newly discovered fossil of Shishania aculeata, an early mollusk without a shell but covered in protective spines, offers new insights into molluscan evolution, indicating a primitive, slug-like ...

Exceptional fossils with preserved soft parts reveal that the earliest mollusks were flat, armored slugs without shells. The new species, Shishania aculeata, was covered with hollow, organic ...

Scientists have discovered nearly 514 million-year-old fossil of the earliest mollusks described as ‘flat, armored slugs without shells’. Named, Shishania aculeata, the newly found species ...

Mondo teamed up with Nieddittas, an Italian fishing cooperative specializing in mollusks, to get the materials it needed. Its fishers cleaned and dried waste shells from harvested mussels and ...