Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Fossil evidence reveals that molluscs may have been among the first animals to spend time out of the water, overturning the popular theory that arthropods were the undisputed early land pioneers. The ...

Researchers found two 430-million-year-old mollusc fossils named Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum in Herefordshire, England, revealing that early molluscs were more complex and adaptable than ...

Digital models of the ancient molluscs Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum, created from X-ray scans of their fossils. Sutton et al. Nature (2025) ...

The study, led by biologists at Harvard University, found that the slugs build sac-like structures known as kleptosomes out of their own cells in which the chloroplasts are stashed. The kleptosomes ...

Smart molluscs – yes, smart molluscs – could watch our waterways 24/7 for pollution. Devin Coldewey. 1:11 PM PST · January 10, 2024. If the clams could speak, what would they say?

A half-a-billion-year-old spiny slug had shed light on the origins of animals like oysters and octopuses, researchers have said. Researchers including scientists from the University of Oxford have ...

Molluscs are one of life’s most diverse animal groups and analysis of the rare 430 million year old fossils is challenging long-held views on their early origins.

The bivalves can do this despite having relatively soft shells made of calcium carbonate, the same material as limestone. To penetrate rocks such as granite and andesite, which are much harder than ...

THE following extract from Prof. Joseph Leidy's paper on “Vertebrate Remains, chiefly from the Phosphate Beds of South Carolina,” which appeared in NATURE, vol. xx. p. 354, will serve in aid ...

The sea has provided what could be an important chemotherapy drug for patients with hard-to-treat cancers. The drug Kahalalide F is a protein produced when molluscs eat the sea slug Elysia rufescens.