Called Shishania aculeata, the new fossil reveals that the earliest molluscs (animals that do not have a backbone) were flat, ...

The newly discovered mollusk lives in the abyss—below 3,300m—with an anemone on its shell, an arrangement that has not been seen before in this region. The study is published in the journal ...

The sub’s name traces back to the curled, hard-shelled mollusk. The ship was exploring the German Channel, a human-made channel carved into a barrier reef in Palau in the western Pacific.

Nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs, are a group of shell-less marine molluscs. Their name means 'naked gill', referring to the breathing apparatus on the outside of their soft bodies. But these ...

Their diet varies according to season; arthropods and larvae are the preferred food items at the breeding grounds, while various hard-shelled molluscs are consumed at other feeding sites at other ...

But ammonites weren't reptiles: they were ocean-dwelling molluscs, specifically cephalopods. Zoë Hughes, Curator of Fossil Invertebrates at the Museum, explains, 'Ammonites are extinct shelled ...

A conch living underwater in the Florida Keys agreed with groundhog Punxsutawney Phil's prediction of six more weeks of winter.