Spiders can help control other household pests and may eat insects like mosquitoes and flies. But it's not uncommon to want ...

Moon snails and lion's mane jellyfish are common sights on beaches during the spring and summer. Moon snails are carnivorous ...

In Thailand, squid is commonly referred to as a “fish” in everyday language, a habit many people grow up with without ever ...

More could have been done to prevent this invasion, and California must now do everything possible to avoid letting it happen ...

Adding olivine to the ocean could remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and a pilot project in New York state found no signs of adverse effects on seafloor organisms ...

In 59 B.C.E. Julius Caesar, future dictator of Rome, gifted his favorite mistress Servilia a black pearl earring of such size and luster that it was chronicled by many Roman writers of the day. Caesar ...

Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of life. Marine snails in the genus Plicopurpura are sacred to the Mixtec people ...

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," said Juliet Capulet in William Shakespeare's famous play. And the same is presumably true for mollusks, albeit with different odors. When you think ...

MANILA, Philippines — Bohol’s rock-eating shipworm antingaw or Lithoredo abatanica is the country’s entry in the International Mollusk of the Year 2026, according to the University of the ...

It’s hard to describe people who are undeniably connected to the land—often, it’s about a feeling they transmit. Grounded, knowledgeable about their work, and passionate in their care for nature’s ...

At first sight, the moon clam may not look like a contender for stardom. Its size is humble, its color pale. Most shocking of all, for a clam, its shells can’t even close. But this oddball of the ...