Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.

Scientists discovered a 512-million-year-old fossil of a parasitic organism on a brachiopod, providing the earliest known evidence of such a relationship.

Tube-dwelling creatures that spent their lives cemented to the shells of clamlike brachiopods over 500 million years ago may be the earliest known parasites. “Parasitism is an integral part of ...

Zhang’s team found hundreds of fossilised brachiopods, animals with two shells resembling those of clams, called Neobolus wulongqingensis. The soft animal inside the shell has a tentacle that ...

Brachiopods are marine invertebrates that have long been valued as archives of palaeoenvironmental conditions due to their robust, low‐magnesium calcite shells. The geochemistry and ...

From 550 million years ago until 250 million years ago, brachiopods, or "lampshells," were plentiful in the earth's oceans. Today these shelly creatures that superficially resemble clams are rare ...

Books Received Published: 29 September 1928 Brachiopod Morphology and Genera (Recent and Tertiary) Nature 122, 472–473 (1928) Cite this article ...

Morphological innovation did not drive diversification in Mesozoic–Cenozoic brachiopods. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02491-9 ...

Permian faunal affinity in the Lhasa Block plays a critical role in reconstructing its paleogeographic evolution. Cisuralian and Guadalupian faunas have been described from the Lhasa Block, but very ...

The mechanism that allows a species of brachiopod to change its shell from rigid to soft and flexible has been revealed, bringing with it new possibilities in the field of material sciences. A recent ...

Late Devonian brachiopod fossils were preserved as molds in a fine-grained sandstone (Big Creek, Hornell, New York, N 42.364361, W 77.645760). Individual fossil samples like this are the basis for ...

Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.