Her research-based paintings close the gap between subject matter and material by depicting natural phenomena via the elements that comprise them.

Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, ...

The ocean is full of surprises, with one of them being the abilities of the big-eyed conch snail. Usually, snails are thought of as slow-moving creatures that have poor eyesight-but conch snails are ...

A conch shell, measuring seven centimetres, has been unearthed at Marungur near Panruti in Cuddalore district where the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology has been conducting excavations.

The Crosgan discovery is operated by ONE-Dyas under a joint venture with supermajor Shell and lies around 60 kilometres east of the partners’ Pensacola discovery in the southern North Sea.

The black band around the bottom lip of the shell gives the game away despite its most unusual colouring. It is the brown-lipped snail, which is variable in colour and occurs on dunes as well as ...

Limpet mines are named after the disk-shaped sea snail that clamps onto rocks. The mines are attached to ships with magnets and usually contain TNT (trinitrotoluene) explosives that are triggered ...

HIRONO, Iwate Prefecture--Sea urchin are a culinary delicacy, but because their shells are often seen as too difficult or costly to recycle, they end up getting tossed out in bulk. But a local ...

feast on a small sea snail species called Limacina helicina, whose clear, glass-like shells measure 3 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Katsunori Kimoto, a senior researcher at the Japan Agency for ...

A snorkeler had a dangerously close call after picking up a stunning seashell, unaware that it was potentially home to one of ...