If you go down to the beach for a spot of rock pooling this summer, just be mindful of exactly which species you might come ...

It took 250,000 sea snails to produce a single ounce of Tyrian purple. Price Database. 27 June 2025. Artworks. ... Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, ...

Lanza Atelier salvages stone excavated from a building site to create a different kind of beach house in Cancún.

In cone snail venom, consomatin’s specific and long-lasting effects help the animal hunt its prey, but it could also lead to the development of better drugs for sometimes fatal diseases–if we ...

For centuries, the indigenous Mixtec people of Mexico's Oaxaca region have used the purple dye that comes from milking a sea snail to make their brightly colored clothing, but the snail – and ...

Toxin from one of the most venomous animals on the planet -- a deadly sea snail -- could help researchers figure out new ways to treat diabetes and other hormone disorders, a new study suggests.

The snail lives within its shell like tube, burrowed into a rock or other substrate. Bieler et al. (2023), PeerJ, DOI 10.7717/peerj.15854 ...

A Deadly Sea Snail Could Bring New Hope for People With Diabetes By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Toxin from one of the most venomous animals on the ...

In honor of National Snail Day, Melissa Betters, a Peter Buck postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of Natural History who studies deep-sea snails, looked at a few snail species to see what ...

The sea snail, officially called a “Naria turdus,” is supposed to be in the Eastern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. It first appeared in the Caribbean, in Aruba, in 2020.

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered three textile scraps containing purple dye dating to around 1000 BC, when King David is said to have ruled the area in Israel’s southern tip, including ...

Researchers say the world’s oldest fish hooks were meticulously shaped out of sea snail shells and found in Sakitari Cave on Okinawa Island in Japan.