Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...

In Massachusetts, common blue mussels may not have the star power of Wellfleet oysters or the charisma of quahogs. But like all shellfish they play an important role in marine ecosystems. Mussels are ...

New research suggests oysters may rely on hidden microbes to help build their shells and maintain chemistry as oceans grow ...

The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

A sea turtle in Kansas City is now swimming with ease after receiving a custom weighted harness. Tortellini the sea turtle ...

Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space. Cornell ...

If you hold up a seashell to your ear and listen, you may hear what sounds like rolling waves and wind. But it’s not actually the ocean. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, what exactly is it that ...