The present-day mollusc family includes snails, cephalopods and mussels. 'Exceptionally well preserved' Dr Mark Sutton, from Imperial College London, led the research. He said: "The names Punk and ...

Modern mollusks, including gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods, exhibit a wide variety of body plans. However, this particular group, aculiferans, were long thought to be morphologically ...

Traditionally, scientists thought that the group of mollusks containing snails, clams and cephalopods “saw all of the evolutionary action,” said Dr. Edie, who was not involved with the new ...

However, predators like sea stars and snails have evolved olfactory receptors specifically tuned to detect these compounds, turning the barnacles’ defensive mechanism into a homing beacon.

For plants in the ground, we found the biological control Nemaslug is effective against slugs, but not snails. There is one chemical option: pellets containing ferric phosphate. Ferric phosphate-based ...

Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...

Forests and estates are overrun with them. One river hosts these large snails along its entire course; those in the water carpeting the flat bed and those left in heaps in pools seem to have ...

"We think it's a feature that specifically evolved in soft-bodied cephalopods with suckers to carry out these worm-like movements." The study, "Neuronal segmentation in cephalopod arms," was ...

Virginia (10-12, 3-8 ACC) suffered a 75-74 loss to Virginia Tech (10-12, 5-6 ACC) in the Commonwealth Clash on Saturday at John Paul Jones Arena. See a full play-by-play and live analysis for the ...