Karen Schneider cried when she saw the destruction at Shell Factory Nature Park. “It was overwhelming,” the park director says. “It’s just so, so, so much.” All 350 animals were safe, but the rest of ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of chiton, a small, armored marine mollusk, living along South Korea’s coasts. The finding shows that even one of Earth’s most ancient animal ...

Watch a blue crab molt as it escapes its shell. Learn how crabs shed exoskeletons, survive vulnerability, and grow larger.

A core sample of ~201 million year old sediments obtained from the Carnduff-2 core, drilled in the Larne Basin (Northern Ireland), showing the shell of an animal that lived on the seabed shortly after ...