Descriptions of mollusks in the Global South are still, for the most part, the result of 'parachute science'

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was the prevailing order, it is not surprising that scientific ...
Mongabay

‘A mollusk is as important as a tiger’: Q&A with Prem Bahadur Budha

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.
Yahoo

Primordial spiny slug from China was forerunner of world's mollusks

WASHINGTON (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 exceptional ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask Dr. Universe: If mollusks have such heavy shells to drag around with them, how have they spread all over the ocean?

Mollusks, from land snails and slugs to oysters and mussels in the sea, have a few things in common. They have a head. They have a soft middle part that holds their organs. Then, some have a muscle ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

The Secret World of Shells: Museum of the Earth Opens Mollusk Exhibit

A new exhibit has hatched at the Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth. “Marvelous Mollusks: The Secret World of Shells” opened on June 6, made possible due to support from the ...
TASS

Scientists find on Kolguev Island in Arctic 13 mollusk species new to that territory

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 ...
Miami Herald

Orange sea creature with ‘bubble’-like bumps discovered as new species off Louisiana

Off the coast of Louisiana, scientists aboard a research vessel hauled up a box-like structure and began to take it apart. Inside, they found an orange sea creature with “bubble”-like blobs running ...