A new study has shed new light on the use of mollusc shells as personal adornments by Bronze Age people. The research team used amino acid racemisation analysis (a technique used previously mainly for ...

Scientists have identified a group of genes that control the formation of shapes and color patterns on the shell of the tropical marine mollusk referred to as "abalone." A study published in the open ...

What is a mollusk? -- What is a shell? -- Shell collecting -- Shell identification key -- The shells -- Chitons -- Bivalves -- Schaphopods -- Gastropods ...

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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 ...

A new study has confirmed that a species of mollusk, the same family of animals that includes snails, slugs, and octopuses, does in fact have eyes directly in its shell. The Acanthopleura granulata, ...

During a day at the beach, it’s common to see people walking up and down the shore collecting seashells. As a paleontologist and marine ecologist, we look at shells a bit differently than the average ...

Scientists have identified a group of genes that control the formation of shapes and colour patterns on the shell of the tropical marine mollusc referred to as 'abalone'. A study published today in ...