Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Polychaete worms, particularly those belonging to the family Spionidae, represent a significant challenge to marine mollusks through their shell-boring habits. These annelids penetrate the calcareous ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the second floor of the Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

When I say I am a malacologist, I often am asked if that is a bad ecologist. No, I study the animal group Mollusca, which includes slugs, snails, sea slugs, clams, tusk shells, chitons (“coat of mail” ...

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Some of the most bizarre lifeforms on Earth lurk in the deeper realms of the ocean. There was so little known about one of these creatures that it took 20 years just to figure out what exactly it was.

An animal that could be mistaken for a spiky fruit is giving scientists a peek into what mollusks looked like around 500 million years ago. Today’s mollusks are an incredibly diverse group of animals, ...

A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusk, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the Senckenberg Society for Nature ...

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 ...

The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent evolution, in which a critical fork in the creatures’ past determined their evolutionary futures.

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MARATHON, FLA. (WSVN) - In South Florida, a groundhog doesn’t determine whether there will be an early spring. Instead, it’s a job for a Florida Keys native: a queen conch. Crowds cheered Monday as ...