Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently ...
A species of clam is back from the dead. Known as Cymatioa cooki, the clam had only ever been found as a fossil, and scientists presumed that the species had been extinct for more than 40,000 years.
This story first appeared at UCSB’s The Current. Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, ...
Our friend Derek invited PaleoCris, Ashley, and myself out to a couple of cool sites he hunts for druzy quartz crystals and ...
LAGUNA BEACH — Mark Garcia and his girlfriend, Yvonne Bellgardt, were looking for sea glass in the rocks near the tide pools north of Main Beach when they came across a more ancient find. “I looked ...
About 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the land, three little shrimp went house hunting. Perhaps seeking shelter from predators, far from protective coral reefs, they chose a giant ...
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