Rectangular whorls game the scientists the impression of "a Cubist interpretation of other snails with ‘normal’ shell shapes.

Fossil shell of Pithocerithium rubiginosum (height is 1.5 cm) from the Miocene sediments of Nexing in Austria (left) and isolated reddish polyene pigments on calcium fluoride disc (diameter of ...

The recent shells retain the organic material that give the shells ... The process may be aragonite crystallizing to calcite, as in fossil snails, or it may be the growth of larger crystals of an ...

Fossils are an essential record of life on ... For example, in the Hawaiian Islands, sediment layers entomb native snail shells—and then the layers above show these snails being replaced by ...

The Museum's collection of fossil molluscs is among the world’s ... Specimen of the large marine gastropod Voluta muricana showing an ornate, spiralling shell with a large aperture. An Eocene shell of ...

Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, Florida.

Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, Florida.

said the snails’ shells are dissolving and developing holes in the Arctic Ocean. Kimoto said higher concentrations of airborne CO2 from human activities, such as burning fossil fuels ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because ...