Deep under the surface of the South China Sea, a new species waits buried in the sand. Matt Hardy via Unsplash More than 4,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, a crack in the seafloor spews gases into ...

Taphonomic signatures on modern bivalve shells, such as traces of drilling organisms, encrusters, fragmentation, and abrasion function as indicators of environmental differences on Belize atoll reefs.

A clam shell may be a familiar find on the beach, but its intricate curves and markings tell a rich tale. For centuries, biologists have collected, drawn, measured and compared the shells of bivalve ...

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Cast of a bivalve shell preserved in 6.5-million year old sediment on Crete (Greece). The scientists analyzed the presences of organisms such as this to complete their extensive analysis. Disclaimer: ...

Fossilized shell assemblages are often the result of postmortem transportation. It is therefore crucial to identify biases introduced due to differences in the hydrodynamic properties of shells to ...

For many years, the structure of natural shell samples has attracted a great deal of interest from Material Scientists as well as Researchers in the Biological Sciences field [1]. The reason for this ...