The recently identified Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi existed a whopping 50 million years ago at a time when warm temperatures might have encouraged its astonishing growth. Slithering up to ...

A snail is an equally comforting and discomfiting creature. Its ornamental shell is both a home and armor ... adorned with two tentacled eyes made out of juggling balls. And the “memoir ...

This tiny snail is not much bigger than a pencil eraser. Its body—most ... snail’s spiraled shell, which protects the snail from predators and prevents it from drying out.

By analyzing the ratio of oxygen isotopes in the shell, researchers can reconstruct the rainfall patterns that the snail ...

(CN) — Despite their conventional name and colorful patterned shells ... Cone snails catch and kill their prey, mostly consisting of worms, small fish, and other mollusks, by harpooning them with ...