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 ...

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

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 ... "Their shells were only 10 millimeters long," he said. ... Goddard turned over yet another rock and saw the needle in the haystack: ...

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 ...

But the conditions were ripe to produce \"casts,\" where mud and sediment would fill a shell, harden into rock, ... collections of marine life and frequently contain clam and other shell fossils.

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 shells we find on the beach, just like fossils, are evidence of an animal that once lived,” says Liz Broughton, visitor experience manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.