When HHMI Investigator Amita Sehgal started studying sleep 25 years ago, the topic elicited a yawn from most biologists. "In the year 2000, if I had suggested to my department that we hire people ...

How do sea molluscs create the consistent patterns on their shells? How do they know when and how to change the pigment?

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...

A decade ago, the only known surviving population of greater Bermuda land snails were discovered in an alleyway in the capital city of Hamilton, where they’d made a home on concrete slabs in the ...

What if you could employ land snails in a similar zero-waste system? Instead of homegrown vegetables, the ultimate yield for your table would be escargots, those glistening nuggets of protein. Yes, ...

Learn about snails with a roundup of snail facts. Discover what snails eat, when they get shells, how long they sleep and how fast they move.

A minuscule snail once thought to have disappeared has been saved from the edge of extinction, a British zoo said Saturday.

Book a kid-friendly tour at WholeSnail, where you can learn more about these little slimy creatures and even pet them.

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are officially underway later this week. It’s always an exciting time in the world of sports when a multitude of athletes from nations everywhere travel to one ...

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Seashells tend to appear quietly. After the tide pulls back, they are just there, mixed into the sand, sometimes whole, sometimes worn thin. They do not look like remains at first. More like leftovers ...