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 ...

Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, says Geoffrey Trussell, an evolutionary biologist and professor at ...

Cuban snail (Polymita picta) world most beautiful land snails from Cuba , its known as "Painted Snails", rare, endangered and protected. Colorful snails, selective focus, copy space© Mark ...

Something strange happens the moment a snail touches a water droplet, and the physics behind it will make you rethink everything you assumed about how these creatures survive.

An international team of malacologists discovered a new snail species, Anauchen picasso, in Southeast Asia that exhibits a highly complex and rectangularly angled shell shape, resembling a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the first time a Powelliphanta augusta snail has been filmed laying an egg. Source: DOC In a world-first, a unique species ...

This is the only animal in the world known to incorporate iron into its exoskeleton. It builds its shell out of the stuff, and even its soft, fleshy foot is covered in thick iron plates like a ...