Many sea animals have this ability but the snail’s living torches are permanently hidden. They sit underneath the hard shell and can’t be pushed outside. And yet, the light not only finds a ...

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

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Seashells are the abandoned exoskeletons of mollusks, like snails and clams. Numerous seashell varieties, including ark ...

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 ...

A Deadly Sea Snail Could Bring New Hope for People With ... and has intricately patterned brown-and-white shells, according to the National Geographic Society. Consomatin itself likely is too ...