After Arthropoda, the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals – mollusks typically have a soft body retained in a shell such as snails, clams, and octopuses are taking the spotlight in the ...

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 ...

(compelling music) - [Jose] Mollusks and their shells, their lives have been intertwined ... Harry] It happened without my knowledge and without my provocation. - [Narrator] One of Harry's areas ...

are essentially snails without shells, terrestrial cousins of clams and oysters. They are gastropods, slime-producing mollusks that carry their stomachs inside their single “foot,” which is ...

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 ...

Its scientific name is Costasiella kuroshimae, and it is a species of sea slug belonging to the order Sacoglossa, a category of marine gastropod mollusks without shells, from the family Costasiellidae ...