A 250-million-year-old fossil of a marine snail shell in pristine condition. The shell was one of the thousands examined in the study. Scale bar = 100 µm Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Looking at specimens such as mollusc shells could fill that gap. The paper said the work could be extended to a large number of fossil snail shells preserved in the Loess Plateau in north-central ...

as on the slab of snail and clam external molds. If a shell fills with sediment that later hardens, it forms an internal mold ( a 3-D picture of the space inside the shell). If an external mold later ...

Snail shells have one big chamber that the animal lives in ... The first recorded ammonite ever found in South America was a Maorites, found by Charles Darwin in Chile. Before science had an answer, ...

Here's the story of how a fossil is made. This is an ammonite. Ammonites were once sea creatures with squid-like tentacles and a curly shell like a snail. They lived at the same time as dinosaurs.

Archaeologists have dug up prehistoric artifacts while helping prepare a major dual carriageway for roadworks. The two-year ...

Beige- and cream-colored stripes cover the snail’s spiraled shell, which protects the snail from predators and prevents it from drying out. Partula snails went extinct in the wild because of ano ...

However, at the end of the day, all we had to show for the day's work was thirst, hunger, sore feet, aching backs, and a few very weathered fossil bone fragments and some snail shells — and we ...

Scientists have found new evidence confirming that turtles once lived without shells. The almost-complete fossil dates back 228 million years and is bigger than a double bed. It was discovered in ...

In July 2021, the city of Zhengzhou, China, experienced a catastrophic rainstorm. It was a deluge of biblical proportions, ...

Trilobite Fossils from Upstate New York Reveal 'Extra' Set of Legs Sep. 12, 2024 — A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has ...

New research reveals that the invasive Apple Snail -- which threatens rice crops -- could spread further in Africa. A team of researchers suggest that South West along Tana River, Western Kenya and ...