“The names Punk and Emo were actually our initial pet names for these ancient mollusks, inspired by some of their unique features and individuality,” Mark Sutton, a paleontologist at Imperial ...

This, of course, is less intriguing than the mollusks' new names: Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum. "The names Punk and Emo were actually our initial pet names for these ancient mollusks ...

With names like “knobby rams-horn,” “masked duskysnail” and “Hoko vertigo,” Pacific Northwest mollusks may have an amusing image, but they’re also some of the most intriguing invertebrates in the ...

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