Million-Yr-Old Mollusk Fossils Emo and Punk Prove the Species Was Evolutionarily Rich and Diverse Punk and Emo shook paleontologists worldwide by changing everything they knew about the origin of ...

It includes more than 20,000 type and figured specimens. The fossil records show molluscs have been systematically diverse and common throughout much of their 530 million year history. Many groups are ...

The type collection is the most scientifically important of its kind. The non-marine (terrestrial and freshwater) gastropod and bivalve molluscs collections are the most geographically diverse and ...

"Molluscs are one of the largest and most diverse animal groups on Earth. However, early Aculiferan molluscs are much less well-known than some of their relatives," Sutton said. "We have limited ...