Sea butterflies flit through the ocean on gossamer wings, each species with a style of its own. These tiny marine snails, or thecosomes, migrate up to surface waters at night to feed and sink to ...

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Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx ...

close up of a new species of yellow snail found in the Florida Keys Researchers have discovered a new species of bright-yellow "margarita" snail hiding in plain sight on a coral reef in the Florida ...

For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...

The Hawaiian tiger cowry is one of the largest cowries in the world, and one of Hawai‘i’s most famous shells. Most people have seen them for sale in shell shops, jewelry stores and variety stores, as ...

A rare natural spectacle unfolded along Odisha’s Puri coastline as countless sea snails washed up on the shore, turning the beach into a mesmerising carpet of moving shells. Visitors were left amazed ...

Behind a pretty shell sits a precision hunter whose toxins can stop a heartbeat, yet also power pain relief and new diabetes ...