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A clam presumed extinct for 40,000 years has been found alive
Known as Cymatioa cooki, this tiny bivalve was thought to exist only in fossil form until its recent reemergence off the ...
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Fossil 'treasure trove' found at landslip site
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." ...
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FRED: 100,000 discovery sites recorded in world’s only open fossil database
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 ...
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X-ray scan of fossil kelp holdfast (IMAGE)
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).
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Fantastic fossils in Britain and where to find them
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 ...
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Stewart Edie, curator of fossil bivalves at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. (IMAGE)
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 ...
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Disco clam: A poster child for weird bivalves
Bivalves have been around for a very long time. They turn up in the fossil record in the early Cambrian, more than 500 million years ago, but their roots go even deeper than that. Since evolving, ...