Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...

The genome-based phylogeny helps to resolve long-standing evolutionary debates and provides new insights into how the extraordinary diversity of species emerged from a single common ancestor. The ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the ...

Though only two new genera, Blandfordina (Limidæ) and Palæolecanites (Lecanitidse), and one new subgenus, Haydenella (Productus), are found necessary, there are no fewer than 177 new species and ...

Invasive species are any plant, animal, insect or plant disease not native to a specific location that can cause harm to the environment, impact the diversity of native species, reduce wildlife ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory ancient species ...

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world -- and this could drive an even steeper decline in the planet's species, according to ...

The objective of this work was to analyze the impact of different feeding frequencies on the growth and hematological parameters of freshwater fish species (tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum; matrinxã, ...

Apidae is the largest family of bees, with over 5,700 species. This includes the famous honey bees and bumblebees. Andrenidae is an example of a family entirely composed of solitary bees. Rather than ...

The divergence time estimated here indicated that the ancestor of Indo-Pacific cowries diversified during the Paleocene, and the closure of the Tethys Seaway might lead to the speciation events of ...