Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video shows ...

Behind a pretty shell sits a precision hunter whose toxins can stop a heartbeat, yet also power pain relief and new diabetes care.

Their smooth white shells are prized by collectors who scour beaches for those that have washed ashore, but as these pictures reveal, egg cowrie sea snails true beauty emerges in the ocean. The marine ...

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CreatureCast - Flamingo Tongue Snails from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. This is the fourth of four contributions from undergraduates in Casey Dunn's Bio0041 Invertebrate Zoology class. This episode is ...

An odd distribution pattern of a rare snail has had biologists scratching their heads since at least the 1880s. Over the years they've come up with a variety of possible explanations, suggesting for ...