Researchers discover 50-million-year-old animal from Tunisia could crack snail shells with its powerful jaws. The discovery ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a new fossil worm lizard species in Tunisia. Terastiodontosaurus ...

The process may be aragonite crystallizing to calcite, as in fossil snails, or it may be the growth of larger crystals of an existing mineral such as the large calcite crystals in the algae (note the ...

Fossil shell of Pithocerithium rubiginosum (height is 1.5 cm) from the Miocene sediments of Nexing in Austria (left) and isolated reddish polyene pigments on calcium fluoride disc (diameter of ...

Chinese scientists have found signs of a super rainstorm etched in the shells of snails, in an experiment that could help unlock evidence in the fossil record of ancient “tipping points” in ...

A 50-million-year-old gastropod fossil was stolen from the Union ministry of mines stall at India International Trade Fair ...

He became interested in paleontology when he was in third- or fourth-grade after he found a sea snail fossil in Shiga Prefecture while picking wild vegetables. “I had always wondered what it ...

The stolen artefact, a gastropod fossil, weighs 1 kg. Gastropods are snail-like and slug-like invertebrate animals. As fossils mostly represent the hard parts of organisms, snails are the most ...