This is an excerpt of He Would Never by Holly Wainwright.Prologue.Sunday night, 11.55pm. Green River Beach. This would be a fitting place for Lachy Short to die.On the edge of a splendid beach he ...

Radiocarbon dating, for example, is incredibly precise but is only effective for artifacts up to 60,000 years old ... the molecules trapped in the fossilized shells of snails found at the site. They ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to ...

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 ...

They are carnivores that slurp up earthworms like noodles, and are some of the world’s largest snails, with oversized, distinctive shells in a range of rich earth colours and swirling patterns.

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 ... they slurp up “like we eat ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because ...

Art is everywhere you look in nature, whether it’s in the form of spiraling humpback whale bubble nets or, as a group of researchers studying snail diversity in Southeast Asia recently ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to save the critically endangered meat-eating mollusc. Threatened by coal ...