A newly identified species of 10-million-year-old fossil crab unearthed along Calvert Cliffs now carries the name of a volunteer who spent years combing those same cliffs before his unexpected death ...

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If you'd stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea's marine life in the mid-20th century, the outlook would have been promising. Snails and the clams they hunt for food increased in abundance for several ...

A search through fossil clams in Florida takes a sharper turn when one rough shell reveals a bright pocket of calcite crystals inside. That single find does more work than the title alone ever could, ...

WARREN -- Just how abundant fossils are in Ohio, and what types of ancient animal and plant life inhabited Ohio were the topics of a presentation by Carrie Schweitzer, a professor in the Department of ...

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