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The Philippines’ “antingaw” (Philippine chalk-chomping clam” in English, with scientific name “Lithoredo abatanica”) got the ...

Sailors once believed this tiny ocean drifter raised its arms like sails to glide across the sea. The truth of how it actually survives in the open water puts that romantic myth to shame.

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An international study led by scientists at the University of Tartu shows that about 470 million years ago, a major ...

Around 470 million years ago, life in Earth’s oceans took an important evolutionary step when marine animals began moving ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has finalized a regulatory change redefining "shellfish," removing the long-standing ...

More than 8,000 people submitted name suggestions for a tiny mollusk pulled from a sunken log nearly three miles beneath the surface of the Northwestern Pacific. The animal, a chiton, now carries the ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and Aquarium on Sanibel has been a fixture on the island since it opened in 1995. Its story began in the 1980s when a local shell collector named Charlene ...