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 ...

Despite their ecological and economic importance, the evolutionary relationships of mollusks have been difficult to decipher because of conflicting evidence from the study of fossils, their ...

Scientists have unearthed two 430 million-year-old fossils which they say challenge previously held views on the origins of molluscs. The specimens, nicknamed Punk and Emo, were found in ...