This resulted in improved resolution within total group Aculifera and a mean age for crown group molluscs of 543.4 Ma. Both analyses recoved sachitids as stem-group aculiferans. Nexus files ...

The story of how animals first set foot out of the water and onto land just became more complex. Fossil evidence reveals that molluscs may have been among the first animals to spend time out of the ...

Researchers had suspected that they must share some common features for such a complex task, but found that they were wrong. Dr Katie Collins, who is the Museum's Curator of benthic molluscs and led ...

Called Shishania aculeata, the new fossil reveals that the earliest molluscs (animals that do not have a backbone) were flat, shell-less slugs covered in a protective spiny armour. Some of the ...

She said China buys 95 per cent of exports of the massive, meaty molluscs, which can weigh a couple of kilograms, and the prospect of Beijing imposing 25 per cent tariffs on them from Thursday has ...

Scientists have unearthed two 430 million-year-old fossils which they say challenge previously held views on the origins of molluscs. The specimens, nicknamed Punk and Emo, were found in ...

Over recent days, those hoping to enjoy a brisk walk along the sands of Marske and Saltburn have instead found themselves greeted with a 'mass graveyard' of molluscs. Pictures sent to Teesside ...