An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido University has characterized the unique mechanics that enable Arcella, a shelled, single-celled amoeba, to move skillfully across different ...

Instead of cracking open like a chicken's egg, some dinosaurs may have emerged from soft-shelled eggs, like turtles or snakes. Steph Panecasio was an Editor based in Sydney, Australia. She knows a lot ...

Many shelled animals, including the humble sea snail, call the ocean their home. But as increased carbon dioxide levels make ocean water more acidic, these creatures will soon find that their home isn ...

Looking like a deflated football and about the same size, it was discovered in 2011 on Seymour Island, Antarctica, in rocks formed 68 million years ago, late in the Cretaceous Period. Housed at ...

Our Market Intel series on commodity-specific tariff profiles continues with almonds. The European Union imports 41 percent of the world’s shelled almonds and is our largest customer, purchasing $1.5 ...

Eggs from the earliest dinosaurs were more like leathery turtle eggs than rigid bird eggs. Studies of fossilized embryos from two kinds of dinosaurs, one from early in dinosaur history and the other ...