Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and the University of Plymouth, UK, assessed the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels on the large predatory "triton shell" gastropod (Charonia ...

The shells of the normally large sea snail predators were also thinner and less dense. Acidity levels are greater near ocean floor volcanic vents off the coast of Japan. As carbon dioxide bubbles ...

The NOAA-backed study builds on past research that found when sea snail shells ... dioxide along a large portion of the West Coast and link it directly to pteropod shell dissolution," Richard ...

Large and dwelling in the deep oceans ... Xenophora pallidula from the Comotes Sea in the Philippines. Photo and shell are from C.R. McClain. Note the different snail species and the coral glued to ...

Scientists have named a spiky shelled, deep-sea snail after Joe Strummer ... They have relatively thin shells, and grow quite large --somewhere between the size of a golf ball and a softball.

Horse conchs, the flashy marine snails that ... isotopes in large horse conch shells from museum collections. A marine mollusk uses calcium carbonate from the surrounding sea to build its shell ...

The latest example of science imitating nature comes from researchers at MIT who have discovered that the shell of a tiny deep-sea snail could ... but doesn’t form large cracks.

The large snails gracefully glide through the water as they sink, thanks to their elongated shells. Seven of the snail species included in the study are fondly known as "sea butterflies" for their ...

Queensland woman Amanda Mee was visiting Pallarenda dog beach in Townsville where she lives on Monday afternoon when she stumbled upon a large shell thought to belong to a sea snail — but what ...

The rough periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis) is a small species of sea snail that is common ... where a toxic algae bloom in 1988 wiped out large portions of the snail populations.