Lightning Whelk Week” the last week of June, with campers diving into the world of an iconic shell and uncovering the science ...

On weekends, I front a punk band called the Dead Cousteaus. On weekdays, I’m a private investigator. So, on Monday morning, I was in my office nursing a bottle hoping to ease out of my weekend, but ...

Meg Stuedemann is one of five finalists for the 2026 Minnesota Farmfest Woman Farmer of the Year award. The award is ...

Divers handling shells on tropical reefs face a threat that most never see coming. Cone snails, slow-moving marine gastropods ...

The venom inside a single cone snail has been estimated to be enough to kill up to 700 people, and there is still no ...

For four decades, a tiny tree snail vanished entirely from the wild islands of French Polynesia, surviving only in the ...

The descriptions of the two new additions to the European snail fauna, named Cochlostoma komarnica and Cochlostoma dobrido, ...

If you tire of looking down, lift your eyes to the sky. Overhead among the gulls, fly terns, those small, angular, white, gray and black birds that provide the soundtrack of summer. Listen for the ...

Around 470 million years ago, life in Earth’s oceans took an important evolutionary step when marine animals began moving ...

After more than a decade of work to return captive-bred Partula snails to the forests of Moorea, scientists finally found the evidence they had been hoping for. In 2024, scientists evaluating a ...

There are millions of firsts out there. Have you ever thought about who might have been the first person to experience ...

The finding shows how life spreads between isolated deep-sea vents — and how closely those ecosystems are tied to the sunlit ...