Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the second floor of the Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

A new species of chiton — a tiny, armored marine mollusk from a lineage roughly 500 million years old — has been identified ...

A routine genetic test in South Korea uncovered Acanthochitona feroxa, a chiton species misidentified for years.

This ‘living fossil' sat on the ocean floor for years before anyone realized what it really was.

Scientists have discovered a new deep-sea mollusk living 18,045 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean, featuring an iron-coated tongue that reveals extraordinary evolutionary adaptation.

As of 2026, more than 80% of the world’s oceans are still unmapped and unexplored. We know more about the face of the moon ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

It’s not uncommon for newly discovered species to make the news, especially when they are found 5,500 meters underwater. What ...

A deep-sea species found 18,000 feet below the ocean uses an iron-coated tongue to survive in extreme conditions.

Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx aruanus, known as the Australi.

As of 2026, more than 80% of the world’s oceans are still unmapped and unexplored. We know more about the face of the moon ...