But the oysters were taken from middens, towers of oyster shelves up to 3.5m high, built by Indigenous people along the foreshore of the harbour and rivers where the traditional custodians would ...

Queensland is the most biologically diverse territory in Australia, home to over 50% of its reptile species. Here are its ...

Octopuses are amazing sea creatures. They belong to a group called molluscs, just like snails and clams. But unlike them, ...

Abstract: The main risk associated with consuming molluscs is the diseases we can acquire due to the contamination of the waters where they lived in. In Ecuador, this is an alarming issue since ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The influence of environmental factors on the distribution of land molluscs in woodland habitats is discussed on a basis of a field study, ...

Mumbai’s mangroves stand as silent sentinels shielding its shores from storms, filtering its waters, and anchoring life along ...

A project to identify new marine species led scientists to find a creature taking a ride through the ocean on top of a ...

This weekend the St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds will once again take center stage as it hosts the annual, two-day U.S. Oyster ...

An unappreciated group of filter-feeding animals found around our coastlines could clean up our waters and nourish a billion people. Is it time we championed bivalves?

The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...