Buried deep within the depths of the Pacific Ocean lies an incredible discovery of a huge limpet that survives at an extraordinary depth of 5,922 meters below water. Bathylepeta wadatsumi, the new ...
A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...
Having recently spent several quiet days on nearly empty beaches along the New Jersey shore, I was taken by the beauty of what had to be millions of broken shells and fragments scattered along the ...