The fossil that gave de Winter and his colleagues so many data points is the shell of an extinct type of clam. The researchers extracted a superthin core from the fossil, which can offer a sense ...

Clam shells are made of calcium carbonate, ... Yearly growth lines indicated that the giants grew more than 5 inches per year, one of the fastest growth rates for any clam — fossil or modern.

A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently been found living at Naples Point, near Santa Barbara. ... "Their shells were only 10 millimeters long," he said.

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 ...

New Haven, Conn. -- Fossil records of the holes drilled in clam shells before and after a mass extinction two million years ago show patterns of predator-prey behavior indicating that although ...

On a return visit to Israel in 2007, Wilson collected about a dozen unbroken clam fossils from a yellowish, sandy mound in the Makhtesh Ramon. He sent the new samples, ranging from babies to full ...

The fossilized shell was collected in Java in 1891 by Dutch physician and anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Dubois traveled to the Indonesian island in search of fossils that would link man and ape on ...

It’s my second day at the Tucson Gem Show and I’m standing in front of the Expo Center, examining the fossilized shell of the world’s largest giant killer clam. It’s gray-white and smooth ...

Rare fossil captures ancient shrimp hiding inside a clam. The strange find is the earliest evidence of shrimp taking shelter in another animal's shell, a behavior they still exhibit today.

By studying the clams' shells, ... "By using multiple fossil shells we were therefore able to extend the record backwards through time to cover the entire last 1,000 years," Reynolds said.

Fossils are extraordinarily useful, but there are many kinds of creatures that don’t fossilize easily. “I study clams so I have tons of fossils, but my colleagues studying, say, jellyfish or fruit ...