This reputation has earned cone snails a place among the world’s most venomous animals. As a result, shell collectors are ...

More than 8,000 people submitted name suggestions for a tiny mollusk pulled from a sunken log nearly three miles beneath the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have found a type of snail, new to South Florida, that might have arrived as a stowaway on a ship. The sea snail, ...

Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, says Geoffrey Trussell, an evolutionary biologist and professor at ...

Scientists discovered a mysterious new species of sea snail in the Florida Reef, and named it as a tribute to Jimmy Buffet's famous song "Margaritaville." The biologist who first spotted the tiny ...

Oceanographer Anya Stajner was recently enjoying a sunset walk along the La Jolla Shores beach when a vibrant violet pop of color caught her eye in the sand. She got down on her hands and knees and ...

Strong onshore winds this week brought in one of the Gulf’s more unusual drifters, the purple sea snail. While riding my e-bike on the beach, I found around a dozen washed ashore, many of them still ...

Researchers have found a type of snail, new to South Florida, that might have arrived as a stowaway on a ship. The sea snail, officially called a “Naria turdus,” is supposed to be in the Eastern ...