In today's video I teamed up with a bunch of friends to go Calcite Crystal hunting here in Florida! What makes these crystals ...

Florida may not be famous for crystals, but this video proves it should be! Watch as we crack open fossilized clams to reveal stunning calcite crystal formations hidden inside, turning ancient shells ...

Glass beads were found inside fossil clams in a Florida quarry, and researchers believe that they're the first particle evidence of ancient meteorite strikes in the area. Glass beads were found inside ...

About 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the land, three little shrimp went house hunting. Perhaps seeking shelter from predators, far from protective coral reefs, they chose a giant ...

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently ...

Tiny holes in three fossil clams reveal that by 75 million years ago, ancient octopuses were deviously drilling into their prey. The find pushes evidence of this behavior back 25 million years, ...

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