Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new fish species called Ferruaspis brocksi, which lived 15 million ...

A paleontological discovery in Australia offers a rare glimpse into prehistoric aquatic life. This exceptionally ...

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 Museum's collection of fossil molluscs is among the world’s most systematically, stratigraphically and geographically comprehensive. It includes more than 20,000 type and figured specimens. The ...

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.

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 ...

With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing image, but they’re also some of the most intriguing invertebrates in the ...

The few fossils are enough to start piecing together ... had thickly enameled teeth that could manage tough foods, such as mollusks, nuts, roots, underground stems and meat from small animals.