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 ...

She is a gastropod — the family that includes snails, slugs and whelks — and was recently discovered as a new species. Semisulcospira egretta, named after the city bird of Xiamen, the egret, was ...

If you thought human birth was seriously twisted, get a load of the Mount Augustus snail from New Zealand. This giant ...

Although Mesozoic gastropod shell architecture and diversity have been well studied, changes in gastropod functional diversity have not yet been directly evaluated using trait-based approaches. Here ...

In the present study, researchers analyzed the 28 mineral elements present in the edible part as well as the shell of edible Gastropod land snails. Edible snail samples were obtained from various ...

Terrestrial hermit crabs (Coenobitidae) live on all the world's tropical coastlines, and typically acquire empty shells of gastropods to protect their soft abdominal region, known as pleon.

A school student has discovered a "very, very rare" seashell during a school holiday session at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Original publication: Wolkenstein, K. et al. Detection of intact polyene pigments in Miocene gastropod shells. Palaeontology (2024). DOI: 10.1111/pala.12691 ...

Land gastropods usually consume fungi, soft bark, rotting vegetation, stems, algae, animal waste, and leaves. They also eat shells, eggs or flesh of other snails and slugs.

The horse conch has been Florida's official state shell since 1969 ... Conch can grow to 24 inches long," making it the largest gastropod in American waters. "Horse Conch." Rare, Beautiful ...