OCEAN CITY — For the 52nd consecutive year, Ocean City mascot Martin Z. Mollusk saw his shadow on the day that bears his name, assuring that summer will once again come a week early, the city ...

Around her neck was an impressive string of mollusk shell beads crowned with a spondylus, or spiny oyster, shell. Her head was also bound, another indicator of wealth and status. Whether the newer ...

A California research collective known as Noah’s Ark Scan says it will begin the first controlled excavation of the Durupınar Site on Mount Ararat’s southern flank once a preservation ...

Art is everywhere you look in nature, whether it’s in the form of spiraling humpback whale bubble nets or, as a group of researchers studying snail diversity in Southeast Asia recently ...

For the fifth year in a row, the oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay is doing well after decades of combating drought, disease, loss of habitat and overharvesting. The Maryland Department of ...

Some graves were overlapped, with up to three sets of remains stacked atop one another, separated by thin layers of soil and surrounded by layers of mollusk shells. Notably, some graves contained ...

crustaceans and mollusks. Thousands of the leggy birds return to England’s moors and grasslands each spring to breed. But their eggs and hatchlings can get crushed by tractors; they’re also ...

This oil-soaked marine snow created a toxic layer over huge areas of the seafloor, home to corals, crustaceans, mollusks, polychaetes and assorted other rare invertebrates. “Number one ...

In a world where foodie culture has become mainstream entertainment, and culinary shows give some viewers “a dish to die for,” writer-director Joseph E. De Leo’s The Mollusk Murders serves up an ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order to boost the U.S. commercial fishing industry drew praise from commercial fishing groups and condemnation from environmental organizations who said they ...