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 ...

A researcher has reviewed, from a molecular and morphological point of view, a family of marine gastropod molluscs, the Aeolidiidae nudibranch, and discovered eighteen new species. Molluscs are ...

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 ...

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?

A 480-million-year-old slug-like fossil has been uncovered in Morocco, shedding new light on the evolution of molluscs -- a diverse group of invertebrates that includes clams, snails and squids.

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 ...

It looks like something out of a Salvador Dali dreamscape but this bizarre sea creature, which lived about 500 million years ago, turns out to have been the mother of all squids – indeed it is the ...

Aim The goals of this study were to: (1) compare water conductivity and pH as proxy measures of mineral richness in relation to mollusc assemblages in fens, (2) examine the patterns of mollusc species ...

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 ...

If you were asked to name cute animals, it’s unlikely slugs would be high on the list but one mollusc could be about to change your mind. The Jorunna parva is a species of slug that has been described ...