The creature lives in the “midnight zone," an area of the ocean so deep that sunlight never reaches it. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute In February 2000, scientists spotted an unusual, ...

An itsy-bitsy mollusk in Borneo is the new record holder for the world's smallest known snail, a new study finds. Its shiny, translucent, white shell has an average height of 0.027 inches (0.7 ...

Some of the most bizarre lifeforms on Earth lurk in the deeper realms of the ocean. There was so little known about one of these creatures that it took 20 years just to figure out what exactly it was.

Over two decades ago, researchers spotted a mysterious sea slug swimming more than 8,000 feet deep in the Monterey Bay. In February 2000, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ...

A tiny sea mollusk uses eyes made of a calcium carbonate crystal to spot predators lurking above, researchers say of the first such rocky lenses found in the animal kingdom. While scientists had ...

A team of researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has discovered a glowing “mystery mollusk” within the ocean's midnight zone. The species, named Bathydevius Caudactylus, ...

On a recent afternoon at the Central Library of the Brooklyn Public Library, curious visitors were exploring a six-foot-tall white tower by the entrance. A young girl investigated a hologram of a ...

Called Amoria thorae, the creature is part of the carnivorous Volutidae family of marine snails and is a new species of Amoria, which is a type of mollusk with a wavy shell. The Amoria species, is so ...

Scientists from Southwest China's Yunnan Province published a significant study in journal Science on Friday, unveiling the origins of Shishania aculeata, a species of mollusk existing 514 million ...