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

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

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

Commonly found in backyard gardens throughout the world, snails live a very interesting life. But how long do snails live, ...

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

Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as ...

Although the relationship between plants and pollinators has been studied for decades, not much attention has been paid to ...

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Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

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.

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 ...