How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia ...

Cuban snail (Polymita picta) world most beautiful land snails from Cuba , its known as "Painted Snails", rare, endangered and protected. Colorful snails, selective focus, copy space© Mark ...

Snail shells are often colorful and strikingly patterned. This is due to pigments that are produced in special cells of the snail and stored in the shell in varying concentrations. Fossil shells, on ...

Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, says Geoffrey Trussell, an evolutionary biologist and professor at ...

Some animals carry patterns so precise and mathematically exact that scientists struggle to explain how nature produced them ...

Our excavations at Shanidar Cave in north-eastern Iraq have produced a tiny shell plaque which was made by the first modern people in the region. This little object seems to have been made to ornament ...

New research looks at the swimming and sinking kinematics of nine species of warm water pteropods (sea snails) to shed light on their ecology, predator-prey interactions, and vertical distributions.