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 ...

Kolhapur: Researchers have discovered a new land snail species, ‘Theobaldius konkanensis sp. nov', from Maharashtra's coastal region. ‘Konkanensis' reflects the endemic range of this snail to Konkan, ...

Among these, cone snails stand out not just for ... has taken steps to bridge this gap by bringing out an identification booklet featuring sea shells from across Indian coasts.

A snorkeler had a dangerously close call after picking up a stunning seashell, unaware that it was potentially home to one of the ocean’s most venomous sea ... of species of cone snails, all ...

Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, ...

A snorkeler in Egypt’s Red Sea had a near escape ... saw a picture of a similar shell online and was shocked to discover that he had held in his hands a cone snail, one of the world’s most ...

A separate expedition discovered new species, including a limpet, a marine mollusk with a conical shell, and a sea star ... Turridrupa magnifica, a deep-sea snail that injects toxins into its ...

A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped ... expedition found new species such as a limpet, a marine mollusk with a conical shell, and a sea star in polar ...