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 ...

as well as life-history characteristics that make them especially vulnerable to dying out, such as low reproductive rates. Seven of the 32 species are known from only one or two sites, and nearly half ...

The Mollusca collection is one of the most comprehensive and significant in the world, constantly in demand by the malacological research community. The type collection is the most scientifically ...

Octopuses are wild creatures. They’re objectively weird, squishy, alien-esque creatures that blob around the ocean and can ...

researchers say Alexa Robles-Gil Unearthed last year, the remains could reveal new information on the extinct sea reptile, which crushed mollusks and shelled creatures with its large, round teeth ...

‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Edwards (1799–1875) and Searles V. Wood (1798–1880) had divided the workload of describing the Mollusca found in the English Tertiary formations, with Edwards taking the older formations and Wood the ...

Mussels and limpets are two mollusks that share several characteristics. Both are harvested from shorelines, and both express a similar blend of savory and sweet flavors. Furthermore, the mollusks are ...

While there are countless characteristics that combine in an almost infinite number of ways, people have been trying to find a way to classify personalities ever since Hippocrates and the ancient ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...