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The mollusk tree of life: A new perspective Despite their ecological and economic importance, the evolutionary relationships ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells ...

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An international team of scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have captured the first ever footage of a colossal squid ...

The concrete industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, but a new study says that it could one day be a source of negative emissions. By taking a page out of nature’s ...

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 ...

Buried in the muck beneath Puget Sound lives the Pacific Northwest's most profitable marine creature, a mollusk so valuable that gangsters have traded it for narcotics: the geoduck (pronounced ...

The gumboot chiton, a type of mollusk, scrapes algae off rocks with its super tough teeth containing the magnetic mineral magnetite, a type of iron oxide. Fully mineralized chiton teeth are the ...