In an astonishing discovery, scientists have uncovered a clam species believed to have vanished over 40,000 years ago. Known ...

Good places to find trilobite fossils: Torquay in Devon, Marloes Sands in Wales and Coniston in Cumbria. Two very famous sites are Wren’s Nest in Dudley and Girvan in Scotland. Bivalves have two ...

we've stumbled upon a treasure trove of fossils dating back over 100 million years. "From ammonites to bivalves, these ancient marine creatures reveal secrets from the Lower Cretaceous Period." ...

But if you consider them alongside other members of their class Bivalvia, they might not even make the top 10 for weirdness. Bivalves have been around for a very long time. They turn up in the fossil ...

An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue).

Caption Stewart Edie, curator of fossil bivalves at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In a new study, Edie, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues ...

FRED, the Fossil Record Electronic Database ... Their research revealed New Zealand and the Caribbean as modern-day hotspots for bivalve extinction. However, the future of FRED, and indeed ...