Mantis shrimp withstand repeated high-impact forces without structural damage. Researchers discovered the shrimp's clubs feature a protective pattern that controls how stress waves travel through its ...

Think of a seashell. Don’t think of a conch. In fact, forget, for now, about univalve mollusks entirely. Think of Shell, the ...

Italy has almost 5,000 miles of coastline, so these Italian meals that star fish are a big part of the country's cuisine but ...

In the southwest of Spain, at the Montelirio tholos burial site (built between 2900 and 2800 BCE), part of the large Copper ...

How mantis shrimp withstands shock of its .22 caliber bullet punch, study reveals Mantis shrimp are colorful creatures with ...

Insights from probing the shock-absorbing layer within the crustacean’s club-like claw could inspire the design of tough new ...

An international team of marine biologists has documented the highest known count of deep-sea species living in methane seeps ...

Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer ...

He said Shell’s decision is a “big win” for New Jersey’s coastline and economy but “this fight is not over.” Robin Shaffer, president of Protect Our Coast NJ, said that without Shell's ...

Strontium is a chemical element that occurs naturally in rock, soil and water. Ocean strontium values change over time, which makes measuring the levels of the chemical element a unique global system ...

Mollusk shells contain biominerals with remarkable mechanical properties enabled by a small fraction of embedded organic matrix proteins. However, the specific molecular functions of most shell ...