a mother-to-be holds on to the rocky substrate as water flows over her shell. The animal is about one inch long and protected by a whorled casing that covers her soft body. She is a gastropod ...
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meaning the fossil was more than 11,700 years old, and could have been living during the last planetary ice age. The animal that called the shell home, a gastropod, was long dead, but the shell ...
The sample came from a part of the seafloor dating to the Late Pleistocene era, meaning the fossil was more than 11,700 years old, and could have been living during the last planetary ice age. The ...
A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of ... capable of piercing its shell. Described in the journal Current ...