A notorious invasive threat in Australian waterways is getting “rapidly worse”, one dad has warned. One of the globe’s “worst ...

Researchers at the Instituto de Acuicultura Torre de la Sal (IATS-CSIC) in Spain have successfully completed the captive reproductive cycle of the striped venus clam (Clamelea gallina), a breakthrough ...

At first sight, the moon clam may not look like a contender for stardom. Its size is humble, its color pale. Most shocking of all, for a clam, its shells can’t even close. But this oddball of the ...

Japanese Ichthyologist Motosaku Fujinaga was still a senior in Tokyo University when he decided on his life’s work: a study of the life and loves of the 6-in., shrimplike creature known as the kuruma ...

A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated or stored in engineered ponds such as manure lagoons. Now, researchers publishing in ACS’ Environmental Science & ...

Anelise Chen’s genre-bending book “Clam Down” sees an insightful metaphor in a text message typo. By Chelsea Leu Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The New Yorker ...

Although lacking an adaptive immune system and often living in habitats with dense and diverse bacterial populations, marine invertebrates thrive in the presence of potentially challenging microbial ...

In the insect world, impostors could be hiding anywhere. When lifting a stone during an expedition in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco, researchers came across an unusual sight: three blowfly ...

How does a fly larva sneak into a termite nest? With a butt shaped like a termite’s head, obviously. An international team of researchers in Morocco has discovered blow fly larvae not just living but ...