Imagine standing 8,000 metres above the sea floor at Mount Everest, and you find a marine fossil. You should not be surprised ...

This was truly a dream come true. While exploring a creek packed with millions of fossil seashells, we made an incredible discovery. Mixed among the shells were associated remains of an ancient horse ...

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Over the last 4,000 years, a host of things have been used as money in addition to precious metals and paper currency. Among them have been cows, seashells, cheese, tobacco ...

Finding seashell fossils far from any coastline raises obvious questions. The answer takes us back millions of years, when entire regions sat beneath ancient oceans. Through tectonic uplift and ...

In a quarry nestled in the hills of southern China, paleontologists have uncovered a fossil bed unlike any previously found from its time. The discovery, quietly developing over the past five years, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Where do seashells come from? – Ivy, age 5, ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

A newly discovered raptor had a knobby bump on its head, suggesting that, like some larger dinosaurs, it engaged in competitive head bashing. By Jack Tamisiea Head-butting was all the rage at the end ...

Seashells are so plentiful that you may sometimes take them for granted. Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like ...