A new study reveals a bright spot for shellfish populations in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Combining paleontological tools ...

Lab #1: Fossil Preservation Display Specimens - around the edge of the room Skeletal Material Organisms make their skeletons from a variety of materials. Remember, "skeletons" include bone, the ...

In today's video I teamed up with a bunch of friends to go Calcite Crystal hunting here in Florida! What makes these crystals unique is that they are formed inside 2 million year old fossil clam ...

Rare 'fossil' clam discovered alive Date: November 7, 2022 Source: University of California - Santa Barbara Summary: Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that ...

Chronic wrote that they were created by dense collections of marine life and frequently contain clam and other shell fossils.

The Negev Desert in southern Israel might seem a strange place to go clamming, but a quarter-billion years ago, it was a shallow equatorial seacoast. The clam fossils that the College of Wooster ...

A species of clam thought to exist only as a fossil has been found living off the coast of California. It was first described in 1937 by a scientist who collected over one million fossils around ...

The rock has been tumbled in the cobble long enough to be worn smooth and shows the line of a clam shell. He strikes it with a hammer, having long ago learned the right angle, and sure enough ...

The big sky country of the western North America is a world-renowned dinosaur playground. Household-name dinosaurs like ...

A new study of kelp fossils from the coast of Washington state show that kelp forests, which host all manner of marine life, developed tens of millions of years ago.

This Indigenous Trick May Help Protect Shellfish Against Acidification For coastal tribes, nurturing clam beds was “actually kind of protecting your vault, your bank.” ...