Scientists watched as a population of sea snails evolved within just ... saxatilis is a common species of marine snail found ...

The toxin, which is called consomatin, is from the geography cone snail. These creatures are a species of predatory sea snail ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. These findings inspired Ho Yan Yeung, a postdoctoral researcher in Helena Safavi-Hemami’s group at the University of Utah, to investigate whether cone snails ...

In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of the more ...

Marine biologists diving in the Gulf of Thailand were thrilled in 2023 to rediscover several colonies of a rare type of ocean ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division is warning anglers and boaters to help prevent the further spread of two invasive snail species that have ...

southern sea otter and tidewater goby, all of whom have recovered or are on a recovery trajectory thanks to the Act. “Recovery of this snail demonstrates that to save species from extinction, we have ...

More than 1,300 tiny, critically endangered snails that were bred in a UK zoo were released on a remote Atlantic island in a bid by conservationists to save the species. The Desertas Island land ...

He became interested in paleontology when he was in third- or fourth-grade after he found a sea snail fossil in Shiga ... “I never thought it was a new species. I was surprised.” ...

feast on a small sea snail species called Limacina helicina, whose clear, glass-like shells measure 3 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Katsunori Kimoto, a senior researcher at the Japan Agency for ...

Gastropods are a class of mollusks that include snails, slugs and whelks ... far from the South China Sea where the new species was discovered, according to the study. A similar living species ...