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 ...
Winston F. Ponder (Ph.D, D.Sc, FRZSNSW) was educated in New Zealand, and employed as a curator at the Australian Museum in 1968, where he was a Principal Research Scientist in 1980 to his retirement ...
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, ...
Relationships of higher molluscan taxa / Gerhard Haszprunar, Christoffer Schander and Kenneth M. Halanych -- The early Cambrian radiation of Mollusca / Pavel Yu ...
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Scientists solve 500-million-year fossil mystery
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 ...
Cavemen gathered shellfish to eat using the same methods as modern humans, according to new research. Neanderthals in ...
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