Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Prem Bahadur Budha is Nepal’s leading malacologist, having described 18 new-to-science species of mollusks, mostly land snails, from his homeland.

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 ...

A new exhibit has hatched at the Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth. “Marvelous Mollusks: The Secret World of Shells” opened on June 6, made possible due to support from the ...

The last confirmed sighting of the tubercled-blossom pearly mussel was in 1969. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week officially took 21 species off the endangered list — but not in a good way.

ARKHANGELSK, January 16. /TASS/. Scientists of the Federal Research Center for Complex Arctic Studies (the Russian Academy of Sciences' Urals Branch) for the first time studied complexly freshwater ...

Scallops are bivalve mollusks with two lovely scalloped, fan-shaped shells. Sometimes the shells are used to serve Couquilles St. Jacques, a delicious dish made with scallops, onion, wine and ...