[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

Turtles are one of the only land animals on the planet with this feature. They're also some of the only animals that can breathe with their butts. You see, inside a turtle shell is a very ...

In a river valley of Tibet, a pointy creature with a “ribbed” shell ... animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Petraeomastus limenghuai, or Meng-Hua Li’s land ...

Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals ... before acquiring a shell of their own and coming back to land. Hermit crabs don’t breed ...

But animals with harder organic materials, such as shells and shark teeth ... those fossils become exposed on land. Currents and waves erode cliffs and shorelines, further revealing fossils.

The Shell Factory closed months ago. But animal lovers can still visit some of the North Fort Myers attraction’s most popular animals here in Southwest Florida. The Holstein steer Moo loves ...

Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. Fossils can be formed in several ways. Buried bone and shell ...