Punk and Emo shook paleontologists worldwide by changing everything they knew about the origin of mollusks. Punk and Emo are nicknames given to two sets of fossils unearthed from Herefordshire ...

Despite their ecological and economic importance, the evolutionary relationships of mollusks have been difficult to decipher because of conflicting evidence from the study of fossils, their ...

The Anomalocaris, a top Cambrian predator, is another highlight. The name means "unlike other shrimp" or "anomalous shrimp", which is a reference to the first fossil of the species found, which ...

Chief among them were the squidlike nautiloids, a type of tentacled mollusk. The nautiloids lifted ... known mainly from the tiny fossil teeth they left behind. The few complete fossils that ...

The team--John Nance, John Armstrong, George Cody, Marilyn Fogel, and Robert Hazen--collected samples from Calvert Cliffs, along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay, a popular fossil collecting area.

These samples, sent to Istanbul Technical University for analysis, revealed traces of clay-like materials, marine deposits, and seafood remnants, including mollusks. Experts determined that the ...