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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?
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 ...
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.
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 ...
More than 60 ancient tools found in France and Spain have been identified as whale bone, and the evidence shows that people made tools from this material a thousand years earlier than previously thoug ...
Fi and Jane welcome the novelist Marian Keyes around the Fortunately table to share a bag of chocolates. The bestselling author has some confessions about her bowling prowess (or lack of it).
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 ...