Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of ...

It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of excitement for some scientists. By Kate Golembiewski Mark Sutton, an Imperial ...

Exceptional fossils with preserved soft parts reveal that the earliest mollusks were flat, armored slugs without shells. The new species, Shishania aculeata, was covered with hollow, organic, ...

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 ...