Scientists have analyzed amino acids preserved in snail shells to determine a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden ...

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

Continuing with its phrased reopening in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in 2022, the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & ...

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

The snail’s shell defies the smooth spirals we associate ... But they tell a much larger story—about evolution, geography, and extinction. The limestone landscapes of Southeast Asia are ...

New research shows that the weapons found in Germany are much younger than previously thought, suggesting they were made by ...

Beneath the rough/choppy/tumultuous waves of the Bay of Bengal, a kaleidoscope of marine life thrives just 8-12 km off ...

Cerion is a genus of rather large cylindrical land-shells ... before some student of evolution to investigate exhaustively the local species and races of these Bahama snails, and determine ...

New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

Sharks, skates and catfish also have tooth-like structures called denticles that make their skin feel like sandpaper. When ...

J. M. Hutson et al., Revised age for Schöningen hunting spears indicates intensification of Neanderthal cooperative behavior ...