You had to hold your breath and dive a little to get through.” That’s how speleologist Katiya Pavlova summarized the ...

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

Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap ...

It’s ironic that it took the approval of a foreign emperor who had just conquered Napoleon to restore luxury status to ...

Pavlova said. "We were lucky here." Among the artifacts were four shell bracelets, a giant decorated snail shell (genus Strombus), two complete stone disks and six disk fragments, and a piece of ...

Snails are unique in that you can tell how old a snail is by looking at its shell. It maintains the same shell that it was born with and gains more rings in its shell every time it grows. It is ...

‡ Andaman and Nicobar Centre for Ocean Science and Technology, Earth System Sciences Organisation-National Institute of Ocean Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Port Blair ...

This is why Project Janszoon have established weka-proof areas within Abel Tasman National Park to try and give the snails a bit of respite. The fenced-off areas are around 70 by 70 meters (230 by 230 ...

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box 14115-143, Tehran, Iran ...