A new study shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida's Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thousand years.

A snail named after painter Pablo Picasso is one of many species named after artists, but some researchers question whether ...

Snails and slugs are different species, but they both can destroy flowers and vegetables seemingly overnight.Look for silvery ...

New dating shows the 200,000-year-old Schöningen spears were made by Neanderthals, not Homo heidelbergensis, revealing their ...

Soon after archaeologists unearthed a set of prehistoric spears alongside the remains of nearly 50 horses in Schöningen, ...

Scientists have analysed amino acids locked in snail shells to establish a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden hunting weapons. The ...

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist ...

UNSW scientists have discovered new species of bizarre, extinct 'hammer-toothed' carnivorous marsupials that likely crunched snails in Australia's ...

Rectangular whorls game the scientists the impression of "a Cubist interpretation of other snails with ‘normal’ shell shapes.

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because ...