A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusk, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the Senckenberg Society for Nature ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

Elysia chlorotica, commonly known as the green leaf sea slug, is a sea mollusk with unique features that are part animal and part plant. It belongs to the phylum Mollusca (mollusks like clams, oysters ...

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it is a new species of sea slug. The ...

Researchers have compiled the most comprehensive evolutionary tree for mollusks to date. Their analysis surprisingly places two enigmatic groups, cephalopods and monoplacophorans, as sister clades.

What’s armored, covered in worms, and has a rasping tongue? If you said the stuff of nightmares, you’re not wrong. Luckily, however, the critter in question is pretty small—and now famous. Meet ...

Scientists have found 'beautifully preserved' 15-million-year-old thin protein sheets in fossil shells from southern Maryland. The team collected samples from Calvert Cliffs, along the shoreline of ...