This object, called the "type specimen," serves to define the species, so it's the ultimate arbiter of the clam's identification. Meanwhile, Goddard found another specimen at Naples Point -- a single ...
Give a marine snail an easy life, and it will take its time drilling into a clam. Put it under competitive stress, and it will look for a faster route. Those changes, scarred into fossils, show that ...
Our friend Derek invited PaleoCris, Ashley, and myself out to a couple of cool sites he hunts for druzy quartz crystals and ...
Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 24-hour day seems so natural here on Earth, but 70 million years ago, that would have felt ...
Tiny holes in three fossil clams reveal that by 75 million years ago, ancient octopuses were deviously drilling into their prey. The find pushes evidence of this behavior back 25 million years, ...
ITHACA, N.Y. - Clam fossils from the middle Devonian era – some 380 million years ago – now yield a better paleontological picture of the capacity of ecosystems to remain stable in the face of ...
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