Located in the archipelago of Fiji, this small island was apparently made from sea shells discarded by a 1,200-year-old ...

Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beach on the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion shells ...

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...

By studying the chemical fingerprints inside each layer, scientists have been able to learn about the turtles’ lives and the ...

Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...

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Around the deep-sea vents off the southern coast of Japan, a small, “glass”-like creature was discovered. Getty Images/iStockphoto Off the coast of Japan, thousands of feet below the surface, the ...