Thailand has officially registered the "Mae Moh Freshwater Snail Fossil Site" in Lampang Province as the country's 27th fossil heritage site ...

Snail shells are often colourful and strikingly patterned. This is due to pigments that are produced in special cells of the snail and stored in the shell in varying concentrations. Fossil shells, on ...

Colors in the natural world can come in just about every possible shade, from the bright blues of a peacock's tail feathers to the glow of an animal under ultraviolet light. Now researchers have found ...

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 first ...

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! are not ...