Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues about diet, movement, and ocean change over time.
Located in the archipelago of Fiji, this small island was apparently made from sea shells discarded by a 1,200-year-old ...
Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...
Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beach on the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion shells ...
Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School have developed a method to read the chemical layers inside sea turtle shells like a biological stopwatch, reconstructing years of an animal’s ...
An 8-year-old girl from Las Vegas found a rare junonia shell while on vacation in Fort Myers Beach. Ella Cline and her family did not realize the shell's significance until visiting the ...