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

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 ...

Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already beleaguered northern abalone, according to the first study to provide direct experimental evidence that changing sea ...

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 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 ...

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.

ROCKVALE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Located in western Rutherford County, Snail Shell Cave is 13 miles of underground water passage through the limestone of Middle Tennessee. Snail Shell Cave has been ...

Sea scallops are part of the bivalve family because the animals inside create their own shells through the secretion of calcium carbonate, according to the Ocean Conservancy. The animals swim by ...

With a thick shell that can exceed 10cm in diameter and ... water contamination as well as illegal collection, for the sea snails sometimes go the French way – stewed in a soup.

Meet the sea butterfly. Unlike most species of zooplankton that occupy the all-important base of the marine food web, this sea snail earned ... sure the weight of its shell doesn't cause it ...