Glass may be hard, but it’s all too easy to break, as anyone who’s seen a shattered window knows. But now scientists have discovered that they can make glass 200 times tougher than normal by making it ...

A new study has confirmed that a species of mollusk, the same family of animals that includes snails, slugs, and octopuses, does in fact have eyes directly in its shell. The Acanthopleura granulata, ...

A new study found that a rare mollusk species, the Acanthopleura granulate, has hundreds of eyes layered on top of its shells. The species was successful in evading a compromise in its evolution ...

Scientists have identified a group of genes that control the formation of shapes and color patterns on the shell of the tropical marine mollusk referred to as "abalone." A study published in the open ...

A gentle pleasure isn’t necessarily a flimsy one. The hero of the faux documentary Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is a diminutive mollusk shell with one eye, two legs, and a deeply philosophical view ...

Mollusks, from land snails and slugs to oysters and mussels in the sea, have a few things in common. They have a head. They have a soft middle part that holds their organs. Then, some have a muscle ...

Mollusk is the gorgeous, expansive South Lake Union reboot of Gastropod, a tiny Sodo brewery and restaurant with a devoted cult following. At Gastropod, chef Travis Kukull and brewmaster Cody Morris ...

The world's oldest artwork, dated to 540,000 years ago, was created using one or more shark teeth, as well as a mollusk shell, according to a new finding. The art itself consists of etchings on a pale ...

A day lasted only about 23-and-a-half hours. The Earth turned faster than it does today. The new study used lasers to sample tiny slices of a mollusk's shell and count the growth rings. When dinosaurs ...

Scientists have begun to peel back the complex gene networks that control the secretions from the outer layer of cells on the mantle. In the largest study ever performed, the authors generated a ...

Marcel the Shell, the internet’s favorite mollusk, had a voice before he had a body. Actor Jenny Slate was with friends at a hotel room for a wedding when the voice came to her: A childlike, ...

Scientists have identified a group of genes that control the formation of shapes and colour patterns on the shell of the tropical marine mollusc referred to as 'abalone'. A study published today in ...