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A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

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A snorkeler in Australia found a shell tagged with a strangely specific number, kickstarting an online mystery about its ...

Discover what’s inside a turtle shell, living bone fused to spine and ribs, packed with organs, muscles, and nerves that ...

Seashells tend to appear quietly. After the tide pulls back, they are just there, mixed into the sand, sometimes whole, ...

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes. The idea lingers. Snakes do not write or throw balls. They slide and ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

The advocate highlights how children bear the brunt of neglect in schools and families, and calls for a legal framework that ...

Metamorphosis is a reference to the transformation of trash into art, but it is also fitting because many of the repurposed ...