Monument Rocks Chalk Pyramids in Kansas offer one of the best fossil hunting experiences in the Midwest. Explore ancient sea ...

Related: This ancient sea monster could do the breaststroke. ... A 2021 study in the journal Current Biology found that these animals inhabited cone-shaped shells like hermit crabs do.

New Mexico geologist and author Magdalena Sandoval Donahue discusses the interesting geology of the Santa Fe National Forest ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

Using a sophisticated statistical model, they reconstructed sea surface temperatures and atmospheric CO 2 levels over a 6-million-year period that covered two hyperthermals, the Paleocene-Eocene ...

Ancient plankton have climate data hidden in their shells Scientists have discovered a way to use single-celled plankton to estimate large-scale changes in ocean chemistry By Elisa Bonnin ...

A deposit of large clam shells found while digging a pond on Teapot House land likely dates to this time when sea level was 150 meters higher than today. Between 14,000 – 12,500 years ago, the ...

Researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan have uncovered fossil evidence suggesting that squids originated around 100 million years ago and rapidly diversified, becoming dominant predators in ...

Using the Advanced Light Source (ALS) in California, scientists have revealed growth bands in plankton shells that show how shell chemistry records the sea temperature. Work currently continues at ...

TUNIS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - A Tunisian history enthusiast is making dye from sea snail shells inspired by a school project decades ago on ancient Carthage and the purple colouring that brought ...

In Ancient Florida, the Calusa Built an Empire Out of Shells and Fish ... The watercourts could also have been an innovation prompted by a drop in sea level that occurred around 1250, ...