The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

There is a remarkable snail with breathtakingly beautiful shells that can only be found in Cuba. It is not native to any ...

A new exhibit has hatched at the Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth entitled "Marvelous Mollusks: The ...

We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...

Posted: June 18, 2025 | Last updated: June 18, 2025 In this episode, I uncover one of Vietnam’s most elusive seafood dishes—grilled thorny conch, cooked and served right in its shell.

The snails, whose shells measure about 2 inches (5 centimeters) in length on average, are sometimes called "sea pangolins" for their resemblance to the armor-plated land mammal.

To mitigate the impact of sea-level rise, hurricanes, storm surge and other factors contributing to coastal erosion, NFL Green and its partners comprised a reef of 59 tons of oyster shells ...

MARCH Sanibel Shell Festival and Shell Show Shell collectors and artists come from around the world to compete in the prestigious Sanibel Shell Festival and the associated Sanibel Shell Show — the ...

Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research suggests. While the basic eyes of most snails look like small black dots, conch snails known as stro ...

Keeping an eye out Stromboidea sea snails provide some of the best examples of nature’s different approaches to eyesight. While some members of the group, like the strombids, have well-developed eyes ...

Published in the international peer-reviewed journal Molluscan Research, the study aimed to understand how many species of small pāua there are in the country. To do this, the research team, including ...