A new study shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida's Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thousand years.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species, albeit a very old new species. The fossilized creature, which they are calling ...

In the 1990s, archaeologists working near the German town of Schöningen made a remarkable find: a set of well-preserved wooden spears crafted from spruce and pine, along with stone tools and the ...

UNSW scientists have discovered new species of bizarre, extinct 'hammer-toothed' carnivorous marsupials that likely crunched snails in Australia's ...

Here's the story of how a fossil is made. This is an ammonite. Ammonites were once sea creatures with squid-like tentacles and a curly shell like a snail. They lived at the same time as dinosaurs.

Scientists have analysed amino acids locked in snail shells to establish a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden hunting weapons. The ...

Much of the gritty badlands and fossils were deposited here when the ... recorded in his diary seeing piles of mussels and sea snail shells “so old and ancient that they easily crumble on ...

Jöris and fellow researcher Kirsty Penkman, of the University of York, decided to help put that debate to rest by analyzing the molecules trapped in the fossilized shells of snails found at the site.

Their distinctive spiral shells are common finds throughout the Midwest ... Other shellfish, including various species of clams, oysters, and snails, also left their mark in the fossil record. The ...

A snail named after painter Pablo Picasso is one of many species named after artists, but some researchers question whether ...