In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...

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

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

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, ...

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 ...

Most of us have picked up a shell or two that caught our eye while strolling the beach, and many of us might even have a small collection of favorites that decorate our shelves and counters at home.

Snail Mail — the project of Lindsey Jordan — announces her highly anticipated third album Ricochet, due out March 27 on Matador Records. Her first album in five years, she returns with a renewed sense ...

From the chirruping of the birds to the sweeping of a broom, Alan Titchmarsh shares the sounds that all our gardens have in ...

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