The recent shells retain the organic material that give the shells ... The process may be aragonite crystallizing to calcite, as in fossil snails, or it may be the growth of larger crystals of an ...
Dr. Jochum explains that "It is not uncommon for the shells of fossil and present-day land snails to be embellished with ridges, hairs, nodules, or folds; however, the development of such ...
Cast your mind back 56 million years. Can’t? Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a ...
The paper said the work could be extended to a large number of fossil snail shells preserved in the Loess Plateau in north-central China that might reconstruct a relationship of extreme rainstorms ...
The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.