How do sea molluscs create the consistent patterns on their shells? How do they know when and how to change the pigment?

Why don’t animal’s use wheels in locomotion? Why aren’t blue whales bigger? Why are there no freshwater starfish? Why are there no tree dwelling cephalopods? Why can’t my dog make a decent cocktail?

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

The discovery of a strange deep-sea mollusc sparked a global naming effort online, with researchers finally choosing a ...

Researchers believe rising sea temperatures are to blame for the plummeting number of invertebrates such as molluscs and sea urchins at Rottnest Island off Western Australia, with some species having ...

Deepwater Helmet Shell Galeodea keyteri from 650m depth off Inhaca, Mozambique; photo by D.J. Long/Deep Sea News. Teramachi’s Slit Shell (Bayerotrochus teramachii), collected at 2,000 meters deep off ...

Mollusks, from land snails and slugs to oysters and mussels in the sea, have a few things in common. They have a head. They have a soft middle part that holds their organs. Then, some have a muscle ...

Focus: Investigating mollusc adaptation and diversification in the deep sea We are tracing the evolution and diversification of deep-sea molluscs and investigating how they adapt to their environment.

Using genomics and computational approaches, scientists have reconstructed the evolutionary history of the entire phylum Molluscsa, which includes more than 100,000 living species, ranging from giant ...

I do not know who was more shocked, the hermit crab or me, when I picked up an auger shell (for the uninitiated, these are conical and spiral in shape) on the beach only to have a disgruntled set of ...