The seagrass is greener along Florida's Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine ...

UNSW scientists have discovered new species of bizarre, extinct 'hammer-toothed' carnivorous marsupials that likely crunched snails in Australia's ...

Scientists have analysed amino acids locked in snail shells to establish a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden hunting weapons. The ...

Florida’s Nature Coast shelters one of the last thriving seagrass meadows, offering a rare glimpse of a healthy marine ...

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.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species, albeit a very old new species. The fossilized creature, which they are calling ...

In the 1990s, archaeologists working near the German town of Schöningen made a remarkable find: a set of ...

Penkman could estimate the age of the fossil snails. Because the spears were found in the same layer of sediment, the age of the shells — 200,000 years old — would match the age of the spears. “It’s a ...

Their distinctive spiral shells are common finds throughout the Midwest ... Other shellfish, including various species of clams, oysters, and snails, also left their mark in the fossil record. The ...

A snail named after painter Pablo Picasso is one of many species named after artists, but some researchers question whether ...