A few weeks ago, during a trip to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Birch Aquarium, I bumped into a nautilus. More or less. Admittedly there was an aquarium pane and many gallons of water ...
With 350 million years of evolution culminating in almost two centuries of scientific discourse, a new hypothesis emerges. Researchers propose a new explanation for why ammonoids evolved a highly ...
April 13 (UPI) --Ammonoids, an ancient group of mollusks, used the wavy lines found inside their shells to fine-tune their buoyancy, according to a new study. Prior to their disappearance at the end ...
Every fossil has many stories to tell. From the most spectacular dinosaur skeleton to the most common little foram shell, every fossil fragment and trace contains clues about prehistoric lives, ...
Fossils of tiny lobsters nestled together in a seashell suggest the fearsome-looking crustaceans were sociable far earlier in their evolution than known. Modern clawless lobsters often cluster ...
A few weeks ago, during a trip to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Birch Aquarium, I bumped into a nautilus. More or less. Admittedly there was an aquarium pane and many gallons of water ...
Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350 million years of evolution, ammonoids developed increasingly elaborate ...