It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of excitement for some scientists. By Kate Golembiewski Mark Sutton, an Imperial ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by scientists from Durham University and Yunnan University as something entirely ...

Two newly discovered, spiky creatures from the Silurian period—nicknamed Punk and Emo—are helping scientists reveal the early history of mollusks. Mark Sutton, Imperial College London. Altered into ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s reconstruction of Shishania aculeata as it would have appeared in life as viewed from the top, side and bottom (left ...

Exceptional fossils with preserved soft parts reveal that the earliest mollusks were flat, armored slugs without shells. The new species, Shishania aculeata, was covered with hollow, organic, ...

Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and Emo, revealing that ancient molluscs were more complex and adaptable than previously known. Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers has discovered two new ancient mollusk species, and both seem to have sported some punky hairstyles back in their day. Fossil-based renderings of the mollusks ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth's roughly 76,000 species of mollusks come in an impressive variety of forms including clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, slugs and even some possessing exceptional ...