The radula sounds like something from a horror movie — a conveyor belt lined with hundreds of rows of interlocking teeth. In fact, radulas are found in the mouths of most molluscs, from the giant squid to the garden snail. Now, a “prototype” radula found in 500-million-year-old fossils studied by University of Toronto graduate student […]
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Ancient fossils reveal how the mollusc got its teeth
August 23rd, 2012 
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August 23rd, 2012 riffin CHENNAI: A writ plea has been made in the Madras High Court to declare Kolakkanatham fossil site in Ariyalur district as a paleontological heritage site. A vacation bench comprising Justices S Rajeswaran and KBK Vasuki, before which the public interest writ petition from Rajashree of Kalamassery in Kerala came up for hearing on Wednesday, ordered […]
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