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

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

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

materials I used : beads : 2mm (abacus crystal) Soft copper wire 20 gauge (wire diameter 0.8mm) : 30cm (12 inch) for each ...

THE snail, Helix pomatia, concentrates more calcium per unit body-weight in lesser time than most terrestrial animals, that is, 20–40 gm. calcium per kgm., about 50 per cent of which is deposited in ...

The black abalone mollusk (Haliotis cracherodii) is a delicacy in many regions of the world, with fancy restaurant diners ...

In 2016, a retired scientist in London discovered a garden snail with a shell that coiled counterclockwise - the opposite of nearly every other snail on Earth. He named the snail Jeremy, after Labour ...

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

LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab expects a loss in its chemicals and products business in the fourth quarter due in part to "significantly lower" oil trading results, the energy ...

The Hearty Blueshell Snail is a one of the creatures found in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Most creatures drop recoverable materials and some are used for as ingredients for cooking, side ...

Everyone who lives or vacations near the ocean has gone on an early morning beach walk to collect shells and, thinking they have found a perfectly intact specimen, bent over and plucked it from the ...