The story of how animals first set foot out of the water and onto land just became more complex. Fossil evidence reveals that molluscs may have been among the first animals to spend time out of the ...

If the clams could speak, what would they say? Surely we all ask ourselves this question every day. But a French startup is going further, allowing bivalves like clams, mussels and oysters to act ...

Researchers had suspected that they must share some common features for such a complex task, but found that they were wrong. Dr Katie Collins, who is the Museum's Curator of benthic molluscs and led ...

The sea has provided what could be an important chemotherapy drug for patients with hard-to-treat cancers. The drug Kahalalide F is a protein produced when molluscs eat the sea slug Elysia rufescens.

Called Shishania aculeata, the new fossil reveals that the earliest molluscs (animals that do not have a backbone) were flat, shell-less slugs covered in a protective spiny armour. Some of the ...

She said China buys 95 per cent of exports of the massive, meaty molluscs, which can weigh a couple of kilograms, and the prospect of Beijing imposing 25 per cent tariffs on them from Thursday has ...

Vietnam’s seafood sector is setting ambitious goals for 2025 with a 4.35% growth rate and an export turnover of 11 billion USD.

Scientists have unearthed two 430 million-year-old fossils which they say challenge previously held views on the origins of molluscs. The specimens, nicknamed Punk and Emo, were found in ...