Researchers uncover 500 million-year-old mollusk ancestor

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Aug 1, 2024, 2:00 pm178 pts
A team of researchers including scientists from the University of Oxford have made an astonishing discovery of a new species of mollusk that lived 500 million years ago. The new fossil, called Shishania aculeata, reveals that the most primitive mollusks were flat, shell-less slugs covered in a protective spiny…

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