THOOTHUKUDI: The marine fossils discovered at Panaiyur in Kulathur South panchayat approximately belong to the middle to late ...

Overview: Group words by physical shape, focusing on straight, narrow, stick-like objects.It reinforces the theme with a ...

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," said Juliet Capulet in William Shakespeare's famous play. And the same is presumably true for mollusks, albeit with different odors. When you think ...

Japan’s deepest ocean trenches are full of strange life, from record-setting fish to mysterious animals that still defy classification.

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

Mollusks are a highly diverse phylum (Mollusca) of invertebrate animals that constitute a major topic in zoology and evolutionary biology, encompassing classes such as Gastropoda, Bivalvia, and ...

Lazarus taxa, where a species is declared extinct but later learned to be alive and kicking, is the reason people think the megalodon still roams the oceans.

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We can see snails leading similar lives, slimy but not bothering anyone. Yet ...

Die Aciculidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda Prosobranchia) / H.D. Boeters, E. Gittenberger und P. Subai Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

WHILE investigating the food of aquatic Mollusca in Uganda, it was observed that cellulose in the gut contents was being digested. Caelatura hauttecoeuri ruellani (Bgt.), a bivalve, was selected for ...

The Polyplacophora differ from the other taxa of the phylum Mollusca in that their dorsal shell is formed by eight plates or valves, and the mantle forms a belt around the plates. They are benthic and ...

Solenogastres (Mollusca, Aplacophora) are shell-less, vermiform marine molluscs found across a wide range of marine habitats and depths. Despite their broad distribution, their diversity remains ...