Imagine there are ten different types of shells, each the size of a grain of sand, mixed in the bowl of mud in front of you. You want to find each type of individual shell —what do you do? For ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Clay-rich marine sediments in southeastern Tanzania contain some of the world's best-preserved ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

A group of fishermen discovered an animal shell belonging to a prehistoric armadillo on a riverbank in Argentina, according to reports. Imanol Ojeda said he spotted the mostly intact shell—which is ...

A new fossil discovered by researchers might leave fans of turtles a little shell-shocked. A study published in the journal Nature finds a fossil from a turtle roaming Earth 228 million years ago had ...