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

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 ...

Humans have used their beautiful shells, sticky mucus and muscular bodies throughout history for food, religious rituals, medicine and ornamentation. Snails and their shell-less relatives ...

The snail's proboscis was a hypodermic needle ... ships of the Dutch East India Company brought back spectacularly beautiful shells from what is now Indonesia, and they became prized items in ...

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.