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

The candy cane snail (Liguus virgineus) is possibly the most colorful gastropod in the world. Sporting a white, conical shell decorated with distinctive rainbow-colored stripes, the charismatic ...

Limpets and abalone look similar on the outside — both snails have a relatively flat oval shell, unlike the more spherical shell of the helmet snail — but their internal anatomy is different ...

Using a small, flat-tipped paintbrush ... numbered tags had been superglued to their shells. The invasive snail Succinea putris, a.k.a. Species B, has moved into the Chits’ territory and ...

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell. The species, measuring only 3 ...

In this episode of RTÉjr Radio's Let's Dive In, Julie and Phil join forces with Collie Ennis to find out how snails grow their shells. Collie Ennis, Zoologist extraordinaire and Critter Shed ...

A cone snail has a cone-shaped shell, a fleshy foot, a head, and tentacles. Cone snails live in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean and Red Seas, and along the coast of Florida.

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell. The species, measuring only 3 ...