An animal that could be mistaken for a spiky fruit is giving scientists a peek into what mollusks looked like around 500 million years ago. Today’s mollusks are an incredibly diverse group of animals, ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early Pleistocene, over 1 million years ago, they include a baby snail preserved inside ...

Mollusks appeared 540 million years ago, but almost half the unique traits of this group evolved in the first 96 million years. Since then, the rate of evolutionary innovation has slowed and become ...

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 ...

Integrating shimmering ammonites, toothy mosasaurs and a massive haul of specimens into the growing National Fossil Collection Jack Tamisiea 2022 was a busy year at the National Museum of Natural ...

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 ...

To his list of professional milestones, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Geology Christopher McRoberts can add another notable accomplishment: namesake of a newly discovered species of prehistoric, eel ...

Reprint of the 1938 ed., which was issued as the Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin 153. MANUAL OF THE RECENT AND FOSSIL MARINE PELECYPOD MOLLUSKS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS BY WILLIAM HEALY SIC DALL PAUL ...