Researchers spotted more than 200 pieces with punctures that look as if a worm-like or snail-like predator produced them. Over time, the shells appear to have become thicker and stronger, which ...

This research lays the groundwork for using fossil snail shells to reconstruct seasonal precipitation distributions and extreme rainfall events in the geological past. In high latitude regions ...

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The fossil is Shishania aculeata ... prior to the evolution of the shells that we see in modern snails and clams.” The study is published in the journal Science.

The paper said the work could be extended to a large number of fossil snail shells preserved in the Loess Plateau in north-central China that might reconstruct a relationship of extreme rainstorms ...

Ellen, receptionist at the Lapworth Museum of Geology , describes her choice of Object of the Month.; a Portland Screw snail shell fossil. Hi, my name is Ellen. I work here on reception at the ...

Yet, beneath this serene English landscape lies a treasure trove of prehistoric ... slugs and snails, clams, octopus, and squids. Less familiar mollusks are coat-of-mail shells (chitons), and ...

Using UV photography and Photoshop, a scientist recreated the colours of a 4.9-million-year-old cone snail. In a technique used since the 1960s, Jonathan Hendricks of San Jose State University in ...