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.

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the last 300 million years. Chitons have an elongated oval shape with a shell ...

A new study assessed immune responses in four economically important marine mollusk species -- the blue mussel, soft-shell clam, Eastern oyster, and Atlantic jackknife clam -- and identified new ...

Mollusks appeared 540 million years ago, but almost half the unique traits of this group evolved in the first 96 million years. Since then, the rate of evolutionary innovation has slowed and become ...

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An international team of researchers has discovered two new ancient mollusk species, and both seem to have sported some punky hairstyles back in their day. Fossil-based renderings of the mollusks ...

Scientists in South Korea identified Acanthochitona feroxa, a new chiton species long mistaken for a nearly identical mollusk.