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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This means that fossilized snail shells may provide a detailed record of extreme rainfall events that occurred in the past. “Fossil snail shells in sedimentary strata can be valuable material ...

Snail shells are often colorful 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 ...

Chinese researchers say isotopic changes detected in snail shells are a record of Zhengzhou's 2021 super rainstorm Chinese scientists have found signs of a super rainstorm etched in the shells of ...

The snail specimen in question is named Archaeocyclotus brevivillosus and it's just over 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with short bristle-like hairs on its shell.

How fossil hunting takes me out of myself Fossils are a humble, ... Some of the more common fossils found just outside of D.C. include these – shark teeth, fossilized snail shell sediment, ...

The fossil snail is 26.5 millimeters long, 21 millimeters wide, and 9 millimeters tall. The shell's outer margin is lined with short hairs that are bunched around the shell opening.