NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police have cracked the high-profile theft of a 50-million-year-old gastropod fossil from the India International Trade Fair (IITF), arresting a 49-year-old man in connection with ...

A study published in Science on the evolution of molluscan forms and genomes offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex and diverse biology of mollusks, shedding light on how they have evolved over ...

The fountains standing next to the Museo del Prado are built using a sedimentary rock full of gastropod shells from the time of the dinosaurs. These fossils have revealed the origin of the stone: ...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has solved the high-profile theft of a 50-million-year-old Gastropod fossil from the India International Trade Fair (IITF) and arrested a 49-year-old man in connection with ...

Snail shells are often colourful and strikingly patterned. This is due to pigments that are produced in special cells of the snail and stored in the shell in varying concentrations. Fossil shells, on ...

Studies on drilling predation in the fossil record often analyze site stereotypy and drilling frequency. Postmortem prey shell breakage can create particular problems for these analyses, especially in ...

Fortunato, Helena M. 2000. "Larval Development of the Strombina-Group and Related Gastropods: Calibration of the Morphological Variation of the Larval Shell for Inference in Fossil Species." In Third ...

A CORRESPONDENT has raised the question as to whether there is any explanation for the fact that spiral shells of present-day marine gastropods wind in the opposite direction to similar shells found ...

The predatory boring habit common to many recent snails probably arose first in the Polinicinae (Naticacea) during Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) times (100 million years B.P.). In the fossil record ...