Beneath the crushing pressures and near-boiling waters of the Indian Ocean’s abyss crawls a creature so bizarre it seems ...

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

The geography cone (Conus geographus) is a common type of snail that occurs in the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, the Indo-Pacific region, and off the coast of Australia. Its shell has a distinctive ...

The margarita sea snail, which shoots out a toxic mucus ... The tiny invertebrate, which lacks a traditional snail shell, can shoot out toxic mucus webs. The newfound species, named Cayo margarita ...

The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are ...

Many sea snails fashion swirling shells, like this emperor's slit shell, that are decorated with intricate patterning. Smithsonian Institution The hardworking mantle How do these squishy creatures ...

Scientists found a tiny sea animal with a translucent ... Several photos show the strange dwarf snail. It has a “shiny,” see-through spiral shell and a pale white body with black eyes, the ...