Figure 1: Selected hypotheses of extant molluscan relationships and relevant taxa. Figure 2: Phylogram of the RAxML maximum likelihood analysis of the big matrix (216,402 amino acids) under the WAG+Γ ...

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 ...

It looks like something out of a Salvador Dali dreamscape but this bizarre sea creature, which lived about 500 million years ago, turns out to have been the mother of all squids – indeed it is 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 previously ...

Why don’t animal’s use wheels in locomotion? Why aren’t blue whales bigger? Why are there no freshwater starfish? Why are there no tree dwelling cephalopods? Why can’t my dog make a decent cocktail?

A researcher has reviewed, from a molecular and morphological point of view, a family of marine gastropod molluscs, the Aeolidiidae nudibranch, and discovered eighteen new species. Molluscs are ...

A 480-million-year-old slug-like fossil has been uncovered in Morocco, shedding new light on the evolution of molluscs -- a diverse group of invertebrates that includes clams, snails and squids.

Prices for frozen molluscs and fresh fish rose in September compared to August, while fresh meat prices fell over the same period, the consumer protection service’s latest price observatory showed on ...

A book cataloguing Bermuda's snails has only just hit shelves – but its co-author was first inspired 67 years ago during the construction of the American military base in St. David's. The book 'Marine ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Commensal shrimps associated with echinoderms, molluscs, and coelenterates were collected in Tayrona National Park northeast of Santa Marta ...

If the clams could speak, what would they say? Surely we all ask ourselves this question every day. But a French startup is going further, allowing bivalves like clams, mussels and oysters to act as ...