These leathery turtles spend most of their lives buried motionless in river mud, but burst into action to catch their ...

Squid are strong swimmers that use jet propulsion to move. They suck water into a siphon, then expel it out of the funnel in ...

California researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have discovered a new deep-sea creature within ...

While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...

Lots of mollusks are also harvested in the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. At Moscow Rides the Wave fish markets one can ...

With populations down over 80%, giant clams face extinction, threatening coral reefs’ stability and their carbon-sequestering ...

Photograph shared on social media shows a "giant horse conch" discovered in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Sun Tower, designed by Open Architecture, stands along Yantai’s Bohai Bay esplanade like the weathered shell of a giant mollusk. One-hundred-sixty-four feet tall and equally wide at its base, its ...

Tripp, the photographer, said the horse conch appears giant due to the camera angle, and the whelk, its intended meal, was approximately 8 inches long. The horse conch has been Florida's official ...

The giant clam, or Tridacna gigas, is the world's largest marine bivalve mollusk, a group of invertebrate animals with two-part shells. It can grow up to 4.5 feet in length and weigh more than 700 ...