Florida wildlife officials are investigating what they say is the illegal harvest of nearly 300 queen conchs from waters off the Florida Keys, and they are asking the public for help in identifying ...

To prepare for sea level rise, scientists installed textured tiles on San Francisco’s seawall to see what material best ...

There is a remarkable snail with breathtakingly beautiful shells that can only be found in Cuba. It is not native to any ...

A new exhibit has hatched at the Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth entitled "Marvelous Mollusks: The ...

Lifestyle Beach visitor accidentally picks up shell of venomous snail that can kill a human in moments Venomous marine predator can cause paralysis and death, with woman admitting to days of panic ...

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We can see snails leading similar lives, slimy but not bothering anyone.

Snail shells collected at an archaeological site in Oman can be used to trace the Gulf's climate going back thousands of years, a new study reveals. This work can help us understand how people adapted ...

They say beauty is everywhere if we have eyes to see. A team of scientists looked at a tiny, 3-mm snail and saw art.

Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research suggests. While the basic eyes of most snails look like small black dots, conch snails known as stro ...

Otherwise known as hoarding, it’s something that weighs us down in ways we can’t see, for all the clutter. Elliot also argues that it helps us build constrictive shells around ourselves — like snail ...