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Aug. 11, 2023 With 350 million years of evolution culminating in almost two centuries of scientific discourse, a new hypothesis emerges. Researchers propose a new explanation for why ammonoids evolved a highly ...
Oct. 28, 2020 Since the famous discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert in the early 1920s, the fossilized remains have captured the imaginations of paleontologists and the public, alike. Although dinosaur ...
Mar. 2, 2022 Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a new ...
June 29, 2021 In addition to providing coloration, the exoskeletal shell of beetles needs to be strong and damage tolerant, researchers ...
Oct. 9, 2020 Scientists showed increased temperature and acidification of our oceans over the next century could have a range of effects on an economically important marine ...
Mar. 3, 2022 Airplane wings that don't ice up or solar cells that generate electricity even in winter - ice-free surfaces are important for many applications. A team of scientists has now studied an ...
Apr. 5, 2022 New research looks at how the geometry of shells relates to the energy input required to actuate snap-through ...
Apr. 6, 2022 Unregulated commercial harvesting and recreational live collection are pushing Florida horse conch populations closer to ...
Dec. 13, 2021 The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth's past. For the first time, ...
Nov. 5, 2020 Research suggests that the contamination of Isle of Man seabed sediments with zinc, lead and copper from the mining of these metals, which peaked on the island in the late 19th century, is causing ...