Two new worm species that no human had ever documented were found living inside a glass sponge on the deep ocean floor off Japan’s coast. The sponge itself — a translucent, me ...

Two new worm species were found living inside a real underwater "glass castle." ...

On March 6, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released a proposed rule that would amend its regulatory definition of shellfish by removing the phrase “having a shell” and expanding the ...

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.

Freshwater ecosystems across the United States are absorbing the consequences of decades-old decisions to import large non-native species for aquaculture, pest control, and the pet trade. From black ...

An invasion of golden mussel making its home in some local water infrastructure was the talk of the Kern County Water Summit on Thursday.

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the annual Darwin Days in Ithaca, which is hosted by the Museum of the Earth. Ithaca residents gathered from Feb. 10 to 14 to celebrate Charles Darwin's ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the second floor of the Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

A new species of chiton — a tiny, armored marine mollusk from a lineage roughly 500 million years old — has been identified ...

A routine genetic test in South Korea uncovered Acanthochitona feroxa, a chiton species misidentified for years.