mollusk

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

The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

Herman is confident that his father would be happy with his adoration for the mollusk, now chronicled in this beautiful cookbook.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024

It is important because many aquatic snails serve as hosts of dangerous parasitic worms that spend part of their life cycle in a mollusk, part in a human being.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

A radioactive wasp’s nest was found at a decommissioned nuclear worksite in South Carolina, and a thriving community of tube worms and mollusks was located at the bottom of deep-sea trenches in the Pacific.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025

But as it turns out, one group of marine mollusks was way ahead of us.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

These tiny dark-yellowish mollusks, native to rivers in China and Southeast Asia, have already wreaked havoc in South America, and for years have kept officials and ecologists across the United States on high alert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2024

The so-called “hot girl food” is exactly what its name suggests: processed seafood — namely sardines, anchovies, salmon, mollusks and shellfish — that’s neatly packaged and presented in a peel-back, often decorative tin.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024

At the end of the corridor, long strands of shells hang in an arched doorway, the mollusks separated by odd-shaped bits of polished onyx.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García