A museum in Richmond, Queensland, Australia has unveiled a 100-million-year-old fossil pearl, a rare find from an ancient ...

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 ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) reported that a three-acre oyster reef has taken shape in the San Carlos ...

A fossil hunt turned into a crystal discovery. These ancient seashells, now lined with calcite, prove nature creates treasures in unexpected ways.

Interestingly, other early fossils of different turtle species had shells but no beaked jaws. The dawn beak turtle had a beak but no shell, but modern turtles have all of the above.

The fossil shell of Hoplochelys, an extinct genus of aquatic turtle, one of several types of turtle shells collected from sites in Montana and Colorado. Rick Wicker/Denver Museum of Nature and Science ...

Bivalve shells, bits of trilobite, shark teeth, crinoids, and other such fossils have been found here, including a large number of brachiopods.

A culprit They found that the shell walls had become very thin because of a sharp drop in the pH of the oceans — a sign of acidification — a 100 to 1,000 years after the strike.

Shell CEO Wael Sawan focused comments on that longer-term 2050 goal instead of nearer-term objectives. That's despite a 2021 Dutch court case that ordered Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas ...