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All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

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 ...

By taking a page out of nature’s playbook, scientists at Northwestern University developed a carbon-negative concrete through a process similar to how mollusks form their shells. This technique ...

The researchers also spotted this recently identified “mystery mollusk” (Bathydevius caudactylus) swimming far from its known range. The phantomlike creature, a species of nudibranch ...

Buried in the muck beneath Puget Sound lives the Pacific Northwest's most profitable marine creature, a mollusk so valuable that gangsters have traded it for narcotics: the geoduck (pronounced ...

Because filter-feeding bivalves and mollusks take all their nutrients from filtering seawater, they are an excellent choice for a sustainable form of aquaculture that is helping to take pressure ...