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“Mollusks are one of the largest and most diverse animal groups on Earth,” notes Dr. Sutton. “However, early Aculiferan mollusks are much less well-known than some of their relatives.

Mollusks are a diverse group of invertebrates, second in size in the animal kingdom only to arthropods, the group spanning insects, spiders, lobsters, crabs, centipedes, millipedes and others.

They actually help companies monitor water quality by keeping tabs on the health of the mollusks. That’s super cool! And they get to throw around the phrase “ happy as ...

Filter-feeding mollusks respond to water pollution in a very detectable and measurable manner. With that fact in mind, scientists have created a water-quality-monitoring system that uses ...

The mollusks are fitted to a pedestal, which is also attached to a probe, in the water being monitored. This probe receives ...

The fossil, plus 17 others from more than 500 million years ago, reveal that early mollusks were slug-like creatures with prickly armor. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

Over time, I also developed my own recipe for the mollusks by borrowing from the classic Western dish of Oysters Kilpatrick, in which Worcestershire sauce is mixed with lemon to top the oysters.