Turtles that crushed hard-shelled prey like clams and snails were reported to be more than five times more likely to survive ...

Snail shells are often colorful and strikingly patterned. This is due to pigments that are produced in special cells of the snail and stored in the shell in varying concentrations. Fossil shells, on ...

Ocean acidification caused a mass extinction of marine life 66 million years ago, research into tiny shell fossils has shown. This could have implications for the current climate crisis, which is also ...

A new study has found that nearly half of the body traits identified across mollusks – a group that includes snails, clams, ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Fossils are everywhere in Kansas but there are some places where your chances of finding a link to the past are greater than others. The Sunflower State is home to numerous types of ...

Despite their incredible success, ammonites died out at the end of the Cretaceous in the same mass extinction that killed the ...

Construction at a high school uncovered millions of fossils dating back nearly 9 million years. The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery ...

In a warmer climate, summers warm much faster than winters, according to research into fossil shells. With this knowledge we can better map the consequences of current global warming in the North Sea ...

A palaeontologist stumbled on more than he expected while exploring a water cave in Texas in 2023. Although he was looking ...