If the clams could speak, what would they say? Surely we all ask ourselves this question every day. But a French startup is going further, allowing bivalves like clams, mussels and oysters to act as ...

Usually, the individuals of a population of marine species that have the potential to disperse over long distances all share a similar genetic composition. Yet every now and then, at small, localized ...

In this Letter, we investigated the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with multigene data sets assembled from new transcriptome data and published genomes and transcriptomes.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: And we stay in Tasmania at the museum in Hobart, still wet, with Dr Simon Grove and Rob ...

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 ...

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?

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Commensal shrimps associated with echinoderms, molluscs, and coelenterates were collected in Tayrona National Park northeast of Santa Marta ...

Rundell, who teaches invertebrate zoology and evolution, focuses her research on Pacific island land snail evolution, conservation, and biogeography. She also heads a large collaborative project on ...

A blog war is starting to develop again. No I am not talking about this one. I am talking about the Great Invertebrate Wars. Everything was quiet until someone had to stir the pot. GIW I took many ...

Hundreds of thousands of mussels have washed ashore on a beach, prompting officials to warn people not to eat them. A stretch of Robberg Beach, on the southern coast of South Africa, has been ...