They originate at the bottom of the Indian and Pacific oceans, formed on the back of a sea snail. When the snail dies and decomposes, the shell remains, leaving countless of these strong ...

For native wildlife, both occupied and unoccupied shells provide important shelter and sources of calcium and grit. Taking that beautiful snail shell could increase the cost of housing for a ...

He's joining me today to teach me how to eat sea snails. Dan Q. Dao: It was, like, the whole experience. A trash can full of shells under you, you're drinking a ton of beer, and everything's ...

Abalone has a long history in California, but the sea snail is in short supply today. One of the state’s last commercial ...

Scientists watched as a population of sea snails evolved within just a ... Just as the researchers had expected, the shell of ...

Among the most unusual shells found in the past few years were an out-of-place Pacific Ocean snail and a 6-inch-wide ancient clam shell weighing 2 pounds, according to the National Park Service.

Corrosive ocean waters are causing the shells of some marine creatures to dissolve. The shells of marine snails – known as pteropods – living in the seas around Antarctica are being dissolved ...

The larval crabs will live on ocean plankton, molting through several stages before acquiring a shell of their own and coming back to land. Hermit crabs don’t breed well in captivity ...

Prialt is a synthetic version of the venom used by the sea snail Conus magus, popularly known as the Magician's Cone Snail, to hunt prey. As a boy Professor Olivera used to collect the shells of ...

Katsunori Kimoto, a senior researcher at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, said the snails’ shells are dissolving and developing holes in the Arctic Ocean. Kimoto said ...