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 ...

Using a new laboratory technique to analyze fossil snail shells, scientists have gained insights into an abrupt climate shift that transformed the planet nearly 34 million years ago.

Isotopic measurements performed on fossil land snail shells resulted in oxygen isotope ratios that suggest the relative humidity on the islands was higher 50,000 years ago, then experienced a long ...

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 ...

Cataloguing cone snail shell fossils is a little trickier -- not least because the shells have been stripped of colour. But, as discovered by researcher Axel Olsson in the 1960s, ...

A major global cooling event 34 million years ago chilled land as well as sea, according to climate clues found in an unusual place: fossil snail shells. News Today's news ...

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The snails trapped in the monument stone are 85 million years old. By Brooks Hays Several Spanish monuments, including the Fountain of Apolo, feature snail fossils dating to the time of the dinosaurs.

Scientists say the shells of sea snails are being eaten away by the rising acidity in an area of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. CNN values your feedback 1.

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

A major global cooling event 34 million years ago chilled land as well as sea, according to climate clues found in an unusual place: fossil snail shells. The new research, published today (April ...