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

Now, a fossil discovery in Morocco suggests that all mollusks descended from a mollusk with a single shell, much like the tiny, 478-million-year-old worm with a small, hat-like shell on its head.

Soft-bodied Cambrian fossils found in the Grand Canyon reveals how early animals evolved complex feeding systems over 500 ...

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

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 ...

Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum, two newly described mollusk species, were found in the county of Herefordshire, England, and date to around 430 million years ago. Sutton et al., Nature, 2025 ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

By Susan Meikle, university news and communications, with Carrie Tyler, geology and environmental earth sciences, and the Florida Museum of Natural History Tyler and Kowalewski collected samples from ...

Mollusk graveyards are time machines to oceans' pristine past Date: February 28, 2017 Source: University of Florida Summary: Mollusk fossils provide a reliable measure of human-driven changes in ...

Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a ...

Now palaeontologists have managed to precisely measure how long days and years were back in the age of the dinosaurs – and it’s all thanks to a humble mollusk fossil.

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 ...