mollusk

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Among them is Veleropilina gretchenae, a newly identified mollusk recovered from the Aleutian Trench at 6,465 meters.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

To avoid being eaten, the mollusk hides with its transparent body and makes a quick escape by quickly closing its oral hood, similar to the movements of a jellyfish.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024

It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023

The mollusk specialist Alan Solem estimated in 1990 that, of roughly 200 Hawaiian species of one snail family, the Endodontidae, in Honolulu's Bishop Museum, fewer than 40 had been described.

From Salon • May 31, 2023

Ta-p’en-k’eng sites of Taiwan and the South China coast are full of fish bones and mollusk shells, as well as of stone net sinkers and adzes suitable for hollowing out a wooden canoe.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond