Hagfish may look primitive, but their slime is a biological marvel. Learn how this jawless fish uses protein-rich mucus to stop sharks and how scientists are turning that same slime into inspiration ...

Scientists have recognized snails’ regenerative abilities for centuries. In 1766, a researcher documented that decapitated garden snails could regrow their entire heads. Despite that long history, ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

A group of 6,000-year-old seashells has emerged as the loudest playable sound-producing instruments yet confirmed from ...

The greater Bermuda snail was rediscovered in an alleyway and reintroduced with more than 100,000 snails after years of careful breeding. Experts call the recovery a "once in a career" moment for ...

Matt Sclafani leads trials at Stony Brook University to find alternatives to horseshoe crabs for bait for whelk as new laws ...

The city of Marco Island recently provided us with an update on restoration work being done at Tigertail Lagoon and Sand Dollar Island.

With temperatures in the Florida Keys hitting their lowest points in nearly two decades, declaring the end of winter on ...

The Groundhog Day tradition is a little lost on Florida, where groundhogs aren't native. But we do have a lot of other ...

It’s said that when you hold a conch shell to your ear, you can hear the roar of the ocean. Now, researchers have proposed that Neolithic people in Spain used conchs to hear each other — by modifying ...

In this episode, I uncover one of Vietnam’s most elusive seafood dishes—grilled thorny conch, cooked and served right in its shell. This rare preparation involves boiling, slicing, and charcoal ...