A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly replaced with agate over time, creating hidden patterns inside the stone. When ...

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

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Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly strange ways to reproduce and care for their babies. Scorpion mothers carry still-soft-shelled babes on their backs, reminding us that even ...