The ancient specimens, which scientists named Punk and Emo, were found in Herefordshire, in a breakthrough that the research team says challenges beliefs about early molluscs. The creatures ...

The ancient specimens, which were given surprising names by scientists, were found in Herefordshire, in a breakthrough that ...

Called Shishania aculeata, the new fossil reveals that the earliest molluscs (animals that do not have a backbone) were flat, ...

Punk ferox was named due to the fancied resemblance of the spicule array to the spiked hairstyles associated with the punk rock movement.

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 ...

Focus: Investigating mollusc adaptation and diversification in the deep sea We are tracing the evolution and diversification of deep-sea molluscs and investigating how they adapt to their environment.

While slurping oysters is not likely to replace popping a pill, they could help in the fight against superbugs. A ground ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...