Small sea snails with their shells coated in orange material, amphipods, tube-dwelling worms, and deep-sea clams; these are ...

Purple storm snails spend their entire lives floating upside down, held aloft by a handmade raft of bubbles. Using mucus and air, they construct a frothy flotation device that keeps their lightweight, ...

HRI's “Beachcombing” weekly series offers an opportunity to see strange, fascinating objects and species on the beach, but it also offers a window into the Gulf of Mexico.

With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

University of Iowa biologists discovered that a New Zealand freshwater snail duplicated its entire genome, capturing a rare evolutionary transitory state. The finding shows how large-scale genetic ...

An invasive mollusk from China has been found in a lake in Missouri. Due to its highly invasive nature, officials were called briskly to intervene. The staff of the Missouri Department of Conservation ...

One of my friends “Facebooked” me and asked me if I would be interested in some snails. Her fish tank was overrun with them because they hitchhiked home with her on some aquatic plants for her ...

For centuries, eels have appeared in myths, on plates, and in human imagination while holding on to one enduring secret: how do they reproduce? Ancient Egyptians thought the sun shining on the Nile ...