Archive for February 6th, 2015

15-million-year-old mollusk protein found

A team of Carnegie scientists have found “beautifully preserved” 15 million-year-old thin protein sheets in fossil shells from southern Maryland. Their findings are published in the inaugural issue of Geochemical Perspectives Letters. The team–John Nance, John Armstrong, George Cody, Marilyn Fogel, and Robert Hazen–collected samples from Calvert Cliffs, along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay, […]