Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the ...

excursions, and depletion of C org to near zero. Benthic foraminifers show a significant diversity increase: a modest origination event (OM9) occurs among molluscs. The major effects of these ...

Fossils of two prehistoric marine molluscs with distinctive spiky “hairstyles” have been discovered and named Punk and Emo. Their strange appearance highlights the ancient diversity of molluscs – ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Earth's roughly 76,000 species of mollusks come in an impressive variety of forms including clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, slugs and even some possessing ...