In a lesser-traveled corner of Big Bend National Park, scientists are uncovering one of the most detailed records of ancient ...

Succulents form a similar texture barrier with their waxiness and, with some varieties, spikiness. They are also ver ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

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

"That information didn't exist without looking ... to accurately age these mollusks. "If you only take dead mussels, it's hard to tell when they died. Those shells could sit around on the stream ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nudibranchs are gastropod mollusks, like mussels, clams and scallops, but as adults they have no shell, so their soft ... sea dragon consumes nematocysts without harm and incorporates them into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...