Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, ...

But halfway across the world, there's another type of snail that is just as popular. And it's called ốc, or "sea snails." In the streets of Vietnam, people have been eating them for centuries.

Pteropods: Seawaters are already corrosive enough in some areas to erode the shells of these small sea “butterflies.” Pteropods are tiny snails that are found throughout the oceans and are an ...

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 ...

These deep-sea snails inject toxins into their prey with precision with venomous, harpoon-like teeth. Found at 2770m to 3575m in the Arctic's Jøtul Vent Field, east of Greenland, this is the ...

The sea snail with shell measures a little less than ... It is considered to be either extinct or too small in number in areas around the Shikoku and Honshu regions. Its detailed ecology had ...

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 ...

As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically ... like a file in countless small pieces that are easier ...