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The remarkably stiff and durable teeth of a common mollusk species could offer invaluable insights for future technological advances, scientists say. Reading time 2 minutes At first glance, chitons ...

Scientists found the 500-million-year-old fossil of a "penis worm" in the Grand Canyon—and reconstructed how the creature would have used its strange mouth to feed. The newly discovered species of ...

Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our skeletons evolved from a jawless fish. "Much of what we have today has been around ...