"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," said Juliet Capulet in William Shakespeare's famous play. And the same is ...

Study uncovers scientific naming origins behind mollusk names, with Ancient Greek dominating taxonomy for centuries ...

Mollusks have produced many evolutionary innovations since they first appeared 540 million years ago, including spiral shells and a toothed tongue. A new study shows that about half of these ...

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

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Prem Bahadur Budha is Nepal’s leading malacologist, having described 18 new-to-science species of mollusks, mostly land snails, from his homeland.