Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

However, these simple mollusks may hold decades of data detailing the historic conditions of Northwest waterways, such as the Little Spokane or Snake rivers, embedded in their shells. Earlier this ...

These modest mollusks don’t look like much, but their shells tell a staggering story as they store a record of the ...

Ancient clam shells reveal Atlantic Ocean currents are becoming dangerously unstable, approaching critical climate tipping point.

Biological sciences Assistant Professor Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn, third from left, poses with members of her research team, ...

Cal State biologists and the group Orange County Coastkeeper are working together to use oyster shells from local restaurants ...