Getting to admire the fossil of a giant extinct conch snail—a relic from the Late Miocene that lived up to 11 million years ago—is an experience you never forget. Similarly, the fossilized shell of an ...

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

While many people picture small garden snails, some species grow to astonishing sizes and can weigh several pounds. One of ...

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of ...

Once abundant in California, the white abalone had all but vanished. Now, thanks to an innovative breeding program, it’s staged a remarkable comeback ...

Japanese spider crabs have a span of three meters and can weigh up to 19 kilograms. However, the specimens now presented at the Vienna House of the Sea are somewhat smaller: They were recently saved ...

KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Island land snails are facing a serious threat of extinction, according to a new study from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Researchers found extinction rates for island ...