Starting when he was a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, he has monitored the evolution of two common species of sea ... the snails through "risk cues" like smell and hormones—grew thicker shells ...

The man collected the seashell while snorkeling in Egypt's Red Sea, totally unaware that the shell was teeming with life.

He's joining me today to teach me how to eat sea snails. Dan Q. Dao: It was, like, the whole experience. A trash can full of shells under you, you're drinking a ton of beer, and everything's ...

The sea snail with shell measures a little less than 2 centimeters. Although the sea creature is found in colonies at a beach only minutes from the school, it is designated as a near-threatened ...

View Full Profile. 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 ...

A snorkeler in Egypt's Red Sea thought he came across a beautiful ... if it is an empty shell or one with a live snail inside. "Cone snails are very venomous and dangerous to humans," she said.

As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically, they have a spiral-shaped shell into which they retract ...