Everyone needs a hobby. I enjoy researching our history both natural and cultural. One ongoing pursuit I have is to confirm ...

Massive mounds of conch shells have been towering near Anegada in the British Virgin Islands for hundreds of years.

The historic Queen’s Island Victoria Male Voice Choir, formed in 1912 in the Harland and Wolff ship yard, has sang its final ...

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

The Australian stop-motion animator discusses his latest film, a ‘clayography’ of a snail-loving hoarder whose difficult life has caused her to retreat into her shell.

Humans have used their beautiful shells, sticky mucus and muscular bodies throughout history for food, religious rituals, medicine and ornamentation. Snails and their shell-less relatives ...

If life were simple, there would be snails and slugs. Snails carry their homes on their ... It represents an intermediate stage of evolution, where it’s managed to develop a shell, but it’s far too ...

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 ...

While reproducing from the side of the neck may seem odd, it is, in fact, par for the course for snails. That's because they are encased in protective shells that allow them to retreat from ...