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

A snail named after painter Pablo Picasso is one of many species named after artists, but some researchers question whether ...

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 tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, ...

These whorl patterns “look like a cubist interpretation of other snails with ‘normal' shell shapes,” prompting ... Pablo Picasso-style resembling the art style known as Cubism,” scientists ...

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 ...

The snail’s shell defies the smooth spirals we associate ... “These snails,” the authors wrote, “are pieces of art hidden in the leaf litter.” Their forms are sculpted over millennia ...

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 ...

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 ...