Between the 16th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was the prevailing order, it is not surprising that scientific expeditions, specimen deposits in natural history museums, and descriptions of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Prem Bahadur Budha is Nepal’s leading malacologist, having described 18 new-to-science species of mollusks, mostly land snails, from his homeland.

Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Earth's roughly 76,000 species of mollusks come in an impressive variety of forms including clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, slugs and even some possessing ...

ARKHANGELSK, January 16. /TASS/. Scientists of the Federal Research Center for Complex Arctic Studies (the Russian Academy of Sciences' Urals Branch) for the first time studied complexly freshwater ...

The snails and other mollusks around hydrothermal vents have evolved to thrive in extreme conditions, but mineral extraction could drive more than half to extinction.

“Some people may be a bit down on molluscs. My partner called them loser animals. But they’re one of the really major branches of life,” says Mark Sutton at Imperial College London. He and his ...