Research now explains the extraordinary diversity in body shape, size, behavior, habitat and genome of mollusks, of which there are nearly 100,000 described species (and many yet to be discovered).

Mollusks are also important prey for a wide variety of animals, from mammals to birds to snakes to fish, and their sensitivity to environmental pollution makes them excellent indicators of overall ...

Pismo clams, once abundant along the California coast, are being grown and studied in a middle school classroom.

rodents and habitat loss threatened the snails on Deserta Grande Island, so the mollusks were reintroduced on a neighboring island that’s free of invasive species ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...