After years below ground, a cicada bursts from its exoskeleton in this remarkable video showing nature’s power to transform.

Because the argonaut still carries around a nautilus-shell-like construction, it has fueled the scientific debate about whether, and how, an animal can lose such a structure during the course of ...

At Nan’s Ranch, the animals joined the 80-plus other animals already there. Those Shell Factory animals include two ring-tailed lemurs, two coatimundi, a three-banded armadillo and a bare-eyed ...

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.