A new species and genus of a toothy prehistoric fish has been discovered in Socorro County. A paper, published in "Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan" in December ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

One of the shop’s most popular attractions is its selection of geodes. These unassuming round rocks hold a secret: crack them ...

The discovery of two ancient fossils shows early mollusks were more complex and diverse than previously thought. Researchers ...

The Astronaut Trail Shell Club's annual Seashell Festival on Jan. 18 and 19 will feature shells from around the world, ...

Researchers investigated a large collection of fossilized shells belonging to an early Cambrian animal called Lapworthella fasciculata. These shells are incredibly small in size — just slightly ...

Deep below the surface of the South China Sea, an undiscovered species sat in the sediment for thousands of years before its discovery. Brian Aitkenhead via Unsplash In the depths of the ocean ...

In the depths of the ocean where the Earth’s crust meets the freezing water, chemicals leak into the seawater through cracks and fissures called cold seeps. These floods of hydrocarbon-rich ...

When the researchers put the deep-sea sediment through a screen and sifted the smaller rocks and sand, they found a fossilized whorled shell, according to the study. The sample came from a part of the ...