Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

“These snails,” the authors wrote, “are pieces of art hidden in the leaf litter.” Their forms are sculpted over millennia by evolution and geology, shaped as much by isolation as by adaptation. The ...

Beneath the crushing pressures and near-boiling waters of the Indian Ocean’s abyss crawls a creature so bizarre it seems ...

New research shows that the weapons found in Germany are much younger than previously thought, suggesting they were made by ...

Cerion is a genus of rather large cylindrical land-shells ... before some student of evolution to investigate exhaustively the local species and races of these Bahama snails, and determine ...

New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

The snail’s shell defies the smooth spirals we associate ... But they tell a much larger story—about evolution, geography, and extinction. The limestone landscapes of Southeast Asia are ...

J. M. Hutson et al., Revised age for Schöningen hunting spears indicates intensification of Neanderthal cooperative behavior ...

Sharks, skates and catfish also have tooth-like structures called denticles that make their skin feel like sandpaper. When ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about ...

Rubinoff actually studies a rare group of caterpillars that make silk cases to live in, kind of like a snail shell. CHANG ... Rubinoff says it's a marvel of evolution, and when their "Mad Max ...

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 ...