At first glance, a cone snail looks harmless. Its shell is often covered with intricate patterns and bright colors, making it ...

Moon snails and lion's mane jellyfish are common sights on beaches during the spring and summer. Moon snails are carnivorous ...

For decades, biologists have known that hermit crabs forced to live in shells that are too small slow their growth. What wasn ...

Ned, a pale-bodied snail crawls across a leaf in a small town in the Waiararapa, New Zealand, on Aug. 22, 2025. (Giselle Clarkson via AP) I knew that there were right-eyed and left-eyed flounder, but ...

This is a house... and a skeleton. But you probably know it as a snail shell. Snails are actually born with their shells when teeny tiny snails hatch out of their eggs, they already have a shell ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of bright-yellow "margarita" snail hiding in plain sight on a coral reef in the Florida Keys. The tiny invertebrate, which lacks a traditional snail shell, ...

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Last week at 7 a.m., on my only day off, I received a call from Captain Tom Testeverde in Gloucester. His son, Captain Tom Jr., had just brought in the fishing vessel Midnight Sun with some animals ...