An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

Because filter-feeding bivalves and mollusks take all their nutrients from filtering seawater, they are an excellent choice for a sustainable form of aquaculture that is helping to take pressure ...

The newly described species of sea slug dwells in darkness in the ocean’s midnight zone, using a hood to capture prey with a Venus flytrap-like technique Sarah Kuta During a release of captive ...

With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing image, but they’re also some of the most intriguing invertebrates in the ...

In a delightful piece of information that has so far escaped our attention; a small team of mollusks are used to monitor the water in Warsaw, Poland. Monitoring the water for pollutants is of ...

Nudibranchs, or sea slugs, are soft-bodied marine gastropod mollusks.Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute senior scientists Bruce Robison and Steven Haddock first encountered the odd animal in ...

A study reveals overharvesting has caused dramatic declines in Colombia’s piangua shellfish populations, reducing genetic ...

You bet there is. Shellfish — specifically, bivalves like clams, oysters, mussels and scallops — are nutrition-packed and an ...

Clams and oysters are some of the most nutrient-rich animals on the planet, just behind small fish like sardines and anchovies.