Ancient molluscs rocking punk and emo “hairstyles”

Their discovery forces us to rewrite the evolution of mollusks (ANSA)

Scientists discover 430 million-year-old mollusc fossils

Academics say the specimens , nicknamed Punk and Emo, have led them to rethink long-held views.

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Early mollusks Punk and Emo rock the paleontological house

Two Mollusca living in England 430 million years ago reveal the Paleozoic had much been richer in mollusc forms than we realized

Finds from England show that early molluscs were more complex than previously thought.

Ancient molluscs rocking punk and emo “hairstyles”

Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum. Credit: Sutton et al. Nature (2025). A pair of 430-million-year-old mollusc fossils have stunned palaeontologists with their spikes which resemble the hairstyles of “emo” and punk musicians. They’ve named the new fossil species Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum. The newly discovered molluscs were found in deposits in Herefordshire in England’s West Midlands. The deposits date to the middle of the Silurian period (443…