Ancient Cambrian fossils have preserved the oldest known example of parasites in action. More than 500 million years ago in what is now southern China, tubelike parasites clung to the shells of tiny ...

Researchers have shed new light on the evolution of biomineralized columnar pillars in the shells of small marine shellfish called phosphatic-shelled or linguliform brachiopods. The research, ...

Scientists have decoded the first lingulid brachiopod genome, from <em>Lingula anatina</em> collected at Amami Island, Japan. A new article presents the results of ...

Heterochrony is considered to be an important and ubiquitous mechanism of evolutionary change. Three components are necessary to describe heterochrony: phylogenetic relationships, size and shape ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The dominance of Paleozoic articulate brachiopods in once-muddy environments may be explained by an array of mechanisms and structures that ...

A video of a modern shellfish by paleontologists suggests a way to test theories about the behavior of fossilized specimens. Paleontologists agree that it's difficult to observe behavior in fossil ...