For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Among the coral and sand, something unusual caught his eye: a stunningly patterned object that looked like the perfect ocean ...

The beautiful purple shell of the violet sea snail (Janthina janthina) is only part of what makes this gastropod so interesting. Otherwise known as the bubble-raft snail, the critter collects ...

"They're really beautiful," Sischo says ... almost like they're sporting a plaid shirt. One snail has a shell like a miniature cinnamon roll. Some are almost iridescent, glowing with golds ...

Sea snails use gills or a combination of lungs ... the radiated tortoise is known for its domed, strikingly beautiful shell.

Of all the flora and fauna in the region, snails are not one I think about very often. On hikes, they fall into the “just” ...

A snorkeler in Egypt's Red Sea thought he came across a beautiful seashell only ... if it is an empty shell or one with a live snail inside. "Cone snails are very venomous and dangerous to humans ...

The snail's proboscis was a hypodermic needle ... ships of the Dutch East India Company brought back spectacularly beautiful shells from what is now Indonesia, and they became prized items in ...

For native wildlife, both occupied and unoccupied shells provide important shelter and sources of calcium and grit. Taking that beautiful snail shell could increase the cost of housing for a ...

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.

"Instead of being adorned with a beautiful snail shell, which is what we're used to seeing - they would have a red plastic bottle cap on their back or piece of light bulb." She and her colleagues ...

Imagine going to the dentist with this set of teeth! These are teeth located on a snail’s “tongue,” or radula, also called a rasper, which is constantly licking the ground to scrape up and transport ...