WBUR

Could moon snails, neon flying squid fisheries save the scallop industry? Some local scientists are hopeful

The Coonamessett Farm Foundation is trying to create a market for species that prey on bivalves — especially scallops, which ...
AZ Animals

Why 2025 Was the “Year of the Octopus” and a Massive Octopus Bloom

Off the coast of the UK, fishermen and marine biologists are witnessing something not seen in generations. Sightings of the ...
The New York Times

To Feel at Home in a New Place, It Helps to Think Like a Snail

When I moved abroad, I found the slimy mollusks everywhere. Then they taught me how to adapt. By Gabe Bullard On the first morning without rain after I moved to Switzerland, I woke up, still ...
KJZZ

Eating Christmas: Devin Kate Pope cherishes the Feast of Seven Fishes — or sometimes Costco shrimp

There’s something fishy about The Show's next Eating Christmas essay. Arizona writer Devin Kate Pope performed her story live at Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix. DEVIN KATE POPE: When Facebook and I were ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Meet the ‘distinctive’ moon snail lurking along the California coast

With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La ...
WUNC

To save a giant snail, New Zealand targets the non-native critters that eat it

In the forests of New Zealand's North Island, park rangers have been working for more than a decade to save a threatened population of giant snails. Now, these are not your average garden snails. They ...