In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

An Aussie museum was adding new shells to its collection when one of its experts noticed something fascinating hidden inside.

“Instead, mollusc or mollusc-like animals might be the pioneers of these early excursions onto land which date back to the ...

1,200 BC: Cowrie Shells The first use of cowries, the shell of a mollusc that was widely available in the shallow waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, was in China. Historically, many ...

THIS mysterious “glowing” orange bag was pulled from a river in the Netherlands. The creepy luminous sack has dark patches ...

An early-morning walk through the mangroves in Broome, Western Australia, reveals how this rich ecosystem has sustained the ...

A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating ...

The mollusc collection is one of the largest in the Museum, with more than five million specimens. Our collection contains specimens belonging to the seven shell-bearing molluscan classes from across ...

A staffer in turquoise gloves is doing battle with a stubborn oyster, twisting his shucking knife until the mollusc snaps ...

This is one of the most barren environments on Earth and yet, as walking tours scrunch softly uphill between the eerie rock ...

An early-morning walk through the mangroves in Broome, Western Australia, reveals how this rich ecosystem has sustained the ...