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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Toxin from one of the most venomous animals on the planet -- a deadly sea snail -- could help researchers ... and has intricately patterned brown-and-white shells, according to the National ...

For native wildlife, both occupied and unoccupied shells provide important shelter and sources of calcium and grit. Taking that beautiful snail shell could increase the cost of housing for a ...