Whether dripping in garlic butter or served in Heston Blumenthal’s vivid green porridge, land snails are considered a gourmet treat. But academics have discovered the succulent molluscs were also on ...

Native Americans living in the the Gulf of Mexico around 2,000 years ago feasted on 'colossal' oysters, some of which were over seven inches in length. The finding is based on shells collected from ...

A GIANT prehistoric clam shell weighing more than a quarter of a tonne is to be auctioned in the region. The fossilised shell was found in Kenya, far inland from the current coastal region and is an ...

A man who went out gathering winter fuel on Christmas came back with more than he bargained for – the shell of a prehistoric armadillo. He was out looking for firewood when he discovered what he ...

Strange-looking sea animals colloquially called “penis worms”, which lived more than 500 million years ago, may have been the earliest to employ a hermit crab lifestyle by using the discarded shells ...

An ancient conch shell found in a cave in Marsoulas, in the French Pyrenees, has been identified as a wind instrument used by craftsmen in the Palaeolithic period about 18,000 years ago.

Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction. Shell energy: an introduction / Geoffrey N. Bailey, Karen Hardy, Abdoulaye Camara -- North America. Beyond subsistence: the social and ...

The great white shark has an ancestor with teeth so sharp, it could chew through a turtle’s shell. Researchers have finally uncovered the prehistoric shark after years of odd clues suggesting there ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our planet, from climate and evolution to diets and diseases. There may be more to these prehistoric ...

An artist’s impression of the penis worm inhabiting a hyolith shell (Prof Zhang Xiguang, Yunnan University) Strange-looking sea animals colloquially called “penis worms”, which lived more than 500 ...