Because filter-feeding bivalves and mollusks take all their nutrients from filtering seawater, they are an excellent choice for a sustainable form of aquaculture that is helping to take pressure ...

Fascinating new research shows mollusk blood proteins have strong antimicrobial properties, especially when combined with ...

With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing image, but they’re also some of the most intriguing invertebrates in the ...

Fossil-based renderings of the mollusks reveal that both species possessed numerous spines, offering them a counterculture aesthetic that has since informed their scientific names. The researchers ...

so the mollusks were reintroduced on a neighboring island that’s free of invasive species Shi En Kim Aging gracefully comes naturally to these creatures, which can live for hundreds, and ...

The mollusks are fitted to a pedestal, which is also attached to a probe, in the water being monitored. This probe receives ...

Crew members prepare to break up oyster clusters harvested off the Mississippi Coast. (Illan Ireland/Mississippi Free Press) The Louisiana Department of Health has closed down oyster harvesting in ...