It would seem a bit foolish to put a big cap on the end of a torch, right in the path of the beam of light. But that’s exactly what one type of sea snail does. Hinea brasiliana has a pair of ...

Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research suggests. While the basic eyes of most snails look like small black dots, conch snails known as stro ...

After the state ban, the big sea snails were listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora to monitor and limit trade. The losses have only hastened.

The deep-sea 'scaly-foot' snail has recently been listed as 'endangered' due to the destruction caused by mining of the sea floor. This listing comes right as international regulators plan to ...

This sea snail's movements are more like a fruit fly's than other zooplankton, the study found. ... Additionally, the sea butterflies "can play a big ecological role," the BBC reports.

The discovery of a new sea snail in the Florida Keys — one with strange spider-like powers — has scientists worried that they may be seeing the beginning of the state’s latest exotic species ...

Just in case sea snails aren't slow enough, new research has found that they get more sluggish when they grow old — and the discovery is helping us to understand how memory loss happens in humans.

The sea snails known by Italian-Americans as scungilli used to be such a niche market that fishermen ignored them when they turned up in lobster traps or oyster dredges. Now they’re a prized ...

Limpet sea snails may be small, but their mouths pack a big punch. They have a row of tiny teeth made of the hardest biologically produced substance ever discovered.