Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx aruanus, known as the Australian trumpet and regarded as the largest living sea ...

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 ...

Research teams from the Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University have documented the first discovery of five freshwater mollusk species in the Early Pleistocene Tananwan Formation of northern ...

A Sea Snail That Shoots Webs Like Spider-Man Was Found on a Sunken Ship and Scientists Are Watching It Closely ...

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Scientists discovered a mysterious new species of sea snail in the Florida Reef, and named it as a tribute to Jimmy Buffet's famous song "Margaritaville." The biologist who first spotted the tiny ...

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, ...

The long, white strand is actually an egg case belonging to a carnivorous sea snail, known as a lightning whelk. (Padre Island National Seashore/KSAT) Don’t be fooled -- though the image above may ...