Massive mounds of conch shells have been towering near Anegada in the British Virgin Islands for hundreds of years.

Regular urchins have a round body shape, and irregular urchins have a flat shape with short spikes. Irregular urchins are ...

Limpets and abalone look similar on the outside — both snails have a relatively flat oval shell, unlike the more spherical shell of the helmet snail — but their internal anatomy is different ...

Most of their surveys uncovered known snail species ... the study said. Their shells are “translucent” and “densely coiled,” the underside being “almost flat.” Their soft bodies ...

The snail’s shell has an oblong shape and multiple whorls ... Zoosystematics and Evolution The snails were found on the flat faces of karst rock formations commonly found in southern China ...

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.

A cone snail has a cone-shaped shell, a fleshy foot, a head, and tentacles. Cone snails live in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean and Red Seas, and along the coast of Florida.

Using a small, flat-tipped paintbrush ... numbered tags had been superglued to their shells. The invasive snail Succinea putris, a.k.a. Species B, has moved into the Chits’ territory and ...

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate—so some snails ...

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

In this episode of RTÉjr Radio's Let's Dive In, Julie and Phil join forces with Collie Ennis to find out how snails grow their shells. Collie Ennis, Zoologist extraordinaire and Critter Shed ...

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 ...