The recent discovery of nine new species of carnivorous land snails in the remote forests of Papua New Guinea has sparked significant interest in the scientific community and emphasized the island’s ...

16, 2025 — A new study sheds light on how a species of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in almost all marine habitats, thrives in a dark, oxygen-free ... Mussel Bed Surveyed Before ...

Snails are known to combine their slime with ground particles to improve the structure of soil. Many species also eat fungi, decaying plant matter and other unusual material that are difficult to ...

In 1941, two UC Berkeley graduate students recorded 31 species living in a mussel bed on Dillon Beach. In 2019, PhD candidate ...

The Ministry of Health is urging the population to refrain from eating Giant African Snails, warning of serious health complications that could result, including meningitis, which can be fatal in ...

30, 2024 — A new species of black, slender moray eel has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine ... It's Complicated: Researchers ...

Abalone has a long history in California, but the sea snail is in short supply today. One of the state’s last commercial ...

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

Invasive species can wreak havoc wherever they're found, but Florida has a few that are particularly dangerous. Here are the ...

Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...

A spokesman for Royal Mail added: ‘"he post box has been invested with small wildlife several times (snails etc) which are attracted to and eat letters posted in there. "We have needed to routinely ...

15 at the Marine Corps League Clubhouse at 4715 Sherman Road. Dinner is $10 per person and includes all-you-can-eat spaghetti, garlic bread, cookies, coffee and water. Vegetarian dinners and ...