Sea butterflies flit through the ocean on gossamer wings, each species with a style of its own. These tiny marine snails ... conical or urn-shaped shells of about 7 to 11 millimeters, and one ...

Sea urchins (Echonoidea) are sea animals that live in tidal areas and the deep ocean. They have a distinctive round shape ...

Starting when he was a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, he has monitored the evolution of two common species of sea ... the snails ...

A deep-sea snail ... the shell's surface during a crab attack, which in turn would grind down the attacking claw, the researchers suggest. The soft organic middle layer changed shape in response ...

scientists have discovered that the shape of the snails' shells also helps them zip through the sea. The new study, published Sep. 7 in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, shows that large ...

But “when you are in a cave, the mating partner can’t see you, or enemies can’t see you, so there is no need for pigmentation” in the shell or the body, he says. The shape ... like a dome of a church, ...

Researchers also propose a new method to classify snails by sorting them into similar groups based on overall shell shape, shell surface texture, and the arrangement of apertural barriers.

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

Researchers also propose a new method to classify snails by sorting them into similar groups based on overall shell shape, shell surface texture, and the arrangement of apertural barriers. Many of the ...