All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

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 ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...

Almost every type of animal body plan that exists today evolved during the Cambrian explosion, including early arthropods, mollusks and even chordates, which later gave rise to vertebrates.