With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing image, but they’re also some of the most intriguing invertebrates in the ...

China, the birthplace of aquaculture, produces more farm-raised fish protein than the rest of the world combined. Over a span of 4000 years the Chinese have perfected the practice of pond poly ...

Aculifera includes species with small needle-like spicules—and in some cases, shells—while Conchifera includes the groups of ...

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 ...

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 ...