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Last week at 7 a.m., on my only day off, I received a call from Captain Tom Testeverde in Gloucester. His son, Captain Tom Jr., had just brought in the fishing vessel Midnight Sun with some animals ...

Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx ...

A pet snail in West Sussex once stunned record keepers with a 27.3cm shell, yet ocean species grow far larger. So which snail truly claims the crown for size?

Credit: ZSL/Cover Images A rare species of Polynesian tree snail once believed to be extinct in the wild has been officially reclassified as critically endangered, following a decades-long ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The animal kingdom is full of creatures that make themselves look bigger to ward off predators, but marine scientists have found a tiny sea snail that puts on its own light ...

While people and many animals might look pretty symmetrical on the outside, inside our bodies we are all fundamentally asymmetric. For example, the human heart is found to the left of center. Snails ...

A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world's deadliest mass extinction was accompanied by severe ocean acidification. The study is the first ...