Kaushik Bhattacharya is an engineer and materials scientist, but he has always been fascinated by seashells. Part of the draw ...

A donation of an extensive and scientifically important shell collection to Queensland Museum has led to the discovery of a new species of mollusk by a museum curator. Amoria thorae, a new species of ...

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.

A team of researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has discovered a glowing “mystery mollusk” within the ocean's midnight zone. The species, named Bathydevius Caudactylus, ...

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Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego,Brown University, and partner institutions have compiled the most comprehensive evolutionary tree for mollusks to date. Mollusks have ...

Scientists have turned to an unusual mentor to learn how to better design the next generation of armor: marine mollusks. While humans have done a pretty good job historically of designing strong armor ...

Fiction is filled with wild concepts for smart body armor and architecture, from Dune‘s watertight stillsuits to Ant-Man’s shrinkable duds. But the intertidal mollusk Acanthopleura granulata, also ...

Using a combination of traditional and innovative model-building techniques, scientists in the U.S. and a specialist in Denmark have created a lifelike reconstruction of an ancient mollusk, offering a ...

Scientists from Southwest China's Yunnan Province published a significant study in journal Science on Friday, unveiling the origins of Shishania aculeata, a species of mollusk existing 514 million ...

MOLLUSK PRIDES ITSELF on a variety of housemade beers, made in the brewery that’s also located in the restaurant. Pictured here is a pint of the house lager. Credit: SUZI PRATT Mollusk is the gorgeous ...