More than half a billion years ago, strange worms and mollusks teemed in the shallow waters that covered where the Grand ...

A pair of 430 million-year-old mollusk fossils have been named "Punk" and "Emo" by scientists. Researchers say the newly discovered artifacts show that early lifeforms were "more complex and ...

Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils uncovered in the Grand Canyon show how evolution accelerated in resource-rich waters ...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

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 fossil of a strange, squishy creature with a toothy tongue inside its gut has been discovered in good condition. The specimens of this bizarre mollusk-like creature were found in the ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s newest curator in the paleobiology department, Dr. Stewart Edie, opens a drawer with mollusk fossils in the museum’s invertebrate paleobiology collection.

Human activities rather than climate change are having a more devastating effect on mollusk communities, according to new research. An analysis of more than 70,000 fossils indicates that mollusk ...

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