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

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

A snorkeler in Egypt's Red Sea thought he came across a beautiful seashell only ... if it is an empty shell or one with a live snail inside. "Cone snails are very venomous and dangerous to humans ...

Researchers also propose a new method to classify snails by sorting them into similar groups based on overall shell shape, shell surface texture, and the arrangement of apertural barriers.