Fossil snail shells offer new tool for analyzing ancient ocean chemistry Date: January 26, 2022 Source: University of Texas at Austin Summary: A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and ...

A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world’s deadliest mass extinction was accompanied by severe ocean acidification. The study is the ...

There is a remarkable snail with breathtakingly beautiful shells that can only be found in Cuba. It is not native to any ...

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Cataloguing cone snail shell fossils is a little trickier -- not least because the shells have been stripped of colour.

World's Oldest Preserved Fossil Pigments Found In 12-Million-Year-Old Snail Shells This is the first-ever evidence of intact polyene pigments, which are mostly red, yellow, and orange, found in ...

Strange hammerlike teeth seen in two newfound species of ancient marsupials -- teeth unknown in any other mammal -- were the weapons they once used to smash open snail shells.

Barton-on-Sea, which is located in the New Forest in Hampshire, has been named among Britain's best seaside towns according ...

Photo credit: Andrew Lorrey, NIWA. The research, recently published in the Journal of Quaternary Science, provides baseline data for using the shells of Placostylus snails as environmental proxies, ...

You’re in good company if you’ve combed the shoreline for shells, marveled at the glinting, microscopic pieces that make up the sand, or held a snail shell up to your ear listening for the ...

Chinese scientists have found signs of a super rainstorm etched in the shells of snails, in an experiment that could help unlock evidence in the fossil record of ancient “tipping points” in ...