Archive for April 15th, 2013

Fossilized shell-breaking Crab

While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary history of crabs and the shelled mollusks upon which they preyed. In a museum display case he recognized a 67- to 69-million-year-old fossil […]