An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...

Seven of the 32 species are known from only one or two sites, and nearly half the mollusks occur at 10 or fewer sites, making recovery from habitat loss difficult or even impossible for some species.

Eelpouts are primarily bottom-dwelling species, found in deep trenches or around hydrothermal vents in some of the planet’s most extreme environments, Thiel said. The new species were both caught at ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the ...

Both snails were likely to have been accidentally introduced via horticultural shipments. Read more at straitstimes.com.

They said they discovered four species belonging to the genus Phuphania ... Oba, who specializes in bioluminescence, said the mollusks may be mimicking other luminescent creatures that are ...