Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by ...

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays this summer, Duxbury Beach and Mass Audubon will offer fun, free and educational ...

While the great majority of commercial seafood products in the U.S. are safe to consume, a UB infectious disease expert says ...

But exploring the evolutionary roots of these diverse maternal methods is tough, because reproductive tissues decay quickly ...

Ernesto Lasso de la Vega pops up from the murky waters of the Manatee River, waving a large green mussel in the air. After ...

Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish aid marine food webs and carbon storage, revealing how climate change reshapes oceans and ...

In 59 B.C.E. Julius Caesar, future dictator of Rome, gifted his favorite mistress Servilia a black pearl earring of such size and luster that it was chronicled by many Roman writers of the day. Caesar ...

Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of life. Marine snails in the genus Plicopurpura are sacred to the Mixtec people ...

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," said Juliet Capulet in William Shakespeare's famous play. And the same is presumably true for mollusks, albeit with different odors. When you think ...

Mollusks have produced many evolutionary innovations since they first appeared 540 million years ago, including spiral shells and a toothed tongue. A new study shows that about half of these ...