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

Seashells, the durable skeletons of marine animals, are abundant and long-lasting, offering scientists vital clues about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shell International Trading and Shipping (Stasco), one of the U.K.'s major tanker operators, has signed an Evergreen Alliance Agreement with Sembawang Shipyard, one of Singapore's big three repair ...

Ultrastructural observations of periostracum formation and shell regeneration were carried out for the lingulid brachiopod Glottidia pyramidata. The periostracum is triple-layered, and its principal ...

Repair of injured turtle shells can be difficult and time-consuming. This article describes how to manage the freshwater turtle in this phase of healing and how to keep fracture sites 'water-free'.