THOOTHUKUDI: Cultivation of pearl oysters or pearl culture thrived millennia ago at the inland protected bay at Panaiyur in Kulathur along the Gulf of Mannar, c ...

For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans. These tiny, filter-feeding colonial animals live in almost every ocean ...

The snails and other mollusks around hydrothermal vents have evolved to thrive in extreme conditions, but mineral extraction could drive more than half to extinction. By Catrin Einhorn See more of our ...

A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly strange ways to reproduce and care for their babies. Some moms, like crocodiles ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...

GENEVA, July 9 (Reuters) - Over half of mollusc species that cluster around underwater vents and hold promising potential for medicine and technology are at risk of going extinct due to deep-sea ...

MORE than half of mollusc species living near underwater hydrothermal vents face extinction risk from deep-sea mining, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on Thursday. According ...

Over half of mollusc species that cluster around underwater vents and hold promising potential for medicine and technology are at risk of going extinct due to increasing deep-sea mining, the world’s ...

The first division of living things in the classification system is to put them into one of five kingdoms. The five kingdoms are: The binomial system is important because it allows scientists to ...

Gland, Switzerland, 9 July 2026 (IUCN) – Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has revealed. In ...

Over half of mollusc species that cluster around underwater vents and hold promising potential for medicine and technology are at risk of going extinct due to increasing deep-sea mining, the world's ...