Mar 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists working in northern Patagonia, Argentina, have unearthed the fossils of a previously unknown species of small rinconsaurian titanosaur. Chadititan...

May 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Eupera troglobia is the first fully described cave-dwelling clam species discovered in the Americas, and possibly the second in the world. Eupera troglobia...

Mar 10, 2020 by News Staff

Torreites sanchezi, an extinct species of rudist clam that lived during the Cretaceous period, some 70 million years ago, grew fast, laying down daily...

Jan 16, 2020 by News Staff

Shell fishing was a common activity of Neanderthals, according to new research led by University of Colorado, Boulder archaeologists. Homo neanderthalensis...

Jul 23, 2019 by News Staff

Fossil clams found in southwestern Florida contain ancient microtektites, tiny (about 200 μm in diameter) glass beads that form when the explosive impact...

Sep 7, 2015 by News Staff

A team of marine biologists from Canada has described a new cryptic species of giant file clam, Acesta cryptadelphe, originally collected from the waters...