How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia ...

Nature Created These Animal Patterns and They Look Almost Too Perfect to Believe ...

Some animals carry patterns so precise and mathematically exact that scientists struggle to explain how nature produced them ...

Captured in remarkable close-up detail, this tiny land snail slowly climbs a slender plant stem, revealing a side of nature ...

At first glance, a cone snail looks harmless. Its shell is often covered with intricate patterns and bright colors, making it a favorite among shell collectors. However, beneath its apparent beauty ...

Cichlids build nests from abandoned snail shells. A new study shows that while this behavior is instinctive, the fish become increasingly skilled at it with practice. We associate nests with shelter, ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

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 ...

Guinness World Records recognises Gee Geronimo, a giant African land snail measured at 27.3 centimetres in 1978 in West Sussex, as the largest recorded terrestrial snail. However, marine species such ...

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author Robert Cowie of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and ...

Japanese researchers have described a new species of sea anemone that appears to share a mutually beneficial relationship with hermit crabs. The pale pink sea anemones, now named Paracalliactis ...