Between the 16th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was the prevailing order, it is not surprising that scientific expeditions, specimen deposits in natural history museums, and descriptions of ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Earth's roughly 76,000 species of mollusks come in an impressive variety of forms including clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, slugs and even some possessing ...

An international team of researchers has discovered two new ancient mollusk species, and both seem to have sported some punky hairstyles back in their day. Fossil-based renderings of the mollusks ...

Controls in EU countries on bivalve mollusks are not always adequate to protect consumer health, according to the European Commission. Bivalve mollusks include mussels, clams, oysters, and scallops.

Boulder, Colo., USA: The consequences of a warming climate are known to be dangerous for marine ecosystems, with environmental changes like ocean acidification and warming, disrupted nutrient supplies ...

Off the coast of Louisiana, scientists aboard a research vessel hauled up a box-like structure and began to take it apart. Inside, they found an orange sea creature with “bubble”-like blobs running ...