New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

The "sea butterfly" is a zooplankton snail that behaves more like an insect, and its movement may pave the way for a fleet tiny underwater robots. Meet the sea butterfly. Unlike most species of ...

Two common snail species (Nucella lapillus and Littorina obtusata) have evolved in response to a major predator: the invasive ...

Starting when he was a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, he has monitored the evolution of two common species of sea snails living off Maine's coast, tracking how they have responded to changes in that ...

A snorkeler in Egypt's Red Sea had a near escape after encountering one of the most venomous animals on earth.

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.

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 ...

Ozempic was derived from Gila monsters, a lizard native to the southwestern US; Prialt, used to treat chronic pain in HIV and cancer patients, comes from deadly cone snails; and captopril ...

snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically, they have a spiral-shaped shell into which they retract when they perceive danger. While this shell is one of their most characteristic ...