Many sea animals have this ability but the snail’s living torches are permanently hidden. They sit underneath the hard shell and can’t be pushed outside. And yet, the light not only finds a ...

The next generation of bulletproof vests and military armor could well be inspired by a deep-sea ... snail species. But unlike other snail species, this snail survives because of its thick shell ...

A deep-sea snail wears a multilayered suit of armor, complete with iron, new research shows. Dissecting details of the shell's structure could inspire tough new materials for use in everything ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...