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Researchers believe rising sea temperatures are to blame for the plummeting number of invertebrates such as molluscs and sea urchins at Rottnest Island off Western Australia, with some species having ...

Deepwater Helmet Shell Galeodea keyteri from 650m depth off Inhaca, Mozambique; photo by D.J. Long/Deep Sea News. Teramachi’s Slit Shell (Bayerotrochus teramachii), collected at 2,000 meters deep off ...

Using genomics and computational approaches, scientists have reconstructed the evolutionary history of the entire phylum Molluscsa, which includes more than 100,000 living species, ranging from giant ...

Focus: Investigating mollusc adaptation and diversification in the deep sea We are tracing the evolution and diversification of deep-sea molluscs and investigating how they adapt to their environment.

Aim: The Mediterranean Sea is a hotspot of endemism and it is warming at two to three times the rate of the global ocean. The continental masses that surround it constrain species range shifts.

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 ...

If you were asked to name cute animals, it’s unlikely slugs would be high on the list but one mollusc could be about to change your mind. The Jorunna parva is a species of slug that has been described ...

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The research found that human activity such as deep-sea mining has threatened molluscs that live in hydrothermal vents with extinction. Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) have conducted ...

I do not know who was more shocked, the hermit crab or me, when I picked up an auger shell (for the uninitiated, these are conical and spiral in shape) on the beach only to have a disgruntled set of ...