Researchers took 3-D printed reconstructions of fossil cephalopods to actual water tanks (including a swimming pool) to see how their shell structure may have been tied to their movement and lifestyle ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel is continuing with its online lecture series throughout the ...

Each cell comes with a finite set of instructions encoded in its DNA. Life, however, is unpredictable, and when circumstances change, animals need flexibility to acclimate. In a new study appearing in ...

Cephalopods comprise one of the most morphologically and ecologically diverse classes of mollusks, tracing their origins to the Late Cambrian. Extant lineages fall into two principal groups: ...

University of Utah paleontologists David Peterman and Kathleen Ritterbush know that it's one thing to use math and physics to understand how ancient marine creatures moved through the water. It's ...

David Peterman in the AMMLab (Ammonoid Motility Modeling Laboratory) holding a 3-D-printed reconstruction of the planispiral ammonite, Paracoroniceras lyra. David Peterman, Kathleen Ritterbush and ...