At just three millimeters long, the newest addition to science’s catalog of life is easy to miss. But when a team of ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to ...

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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells ...

Mollusks stay in the same shells for their entire lives and never stop adding to them, though they add less and less as they age. “It’s like each shell is a snail’s autobiography,” says ...

Natural pearls form when some kind of irritant, usually a small organism, makes its way into the shell of a mollusk like an oyster or a mussel. To protect itself from the invader, the mollusk ...

A government-funded study found that more than 90 percent of hermit crabs on Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) wore ...

The mollusc collection is one of the largest in the Museum, with more than five million specimens. Our collection contains specimens belonging to the seven shell-bearing molluscan classes from across ...

They found that in limpets, the fate of shell-forming cells is specified autonomously, rather than through induction by other cell lineages as previously believed. Mollusks exhibit diverse shell ...

The oyster or mussel slowly secretes layers of aragonite and conchiolin, materials that also make up its shell. This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the ...