A new documentary explores how slowness can be a superpower, helping animals camouflage, evade predators, maintain a low ...

A new study published in Conservation Biology examines the behavior and distribution of queen conch (Aliger gigas) to guide ...

The Coonamessett Farm Foundation is trying to create a market for species that prey on bivalves — especially scallops, which ...

If you're visiting a sandy beach you may like to reflect on something that might be going on below your feet. Lurking behind ...

Cone snails may appear small and harmless, but some species possess an extremely potent venom used to immobilise prey. Found primarily in warm ocean waters, these marine snails use a specialised, ...

Nearly 12,000 feet beneath the Greenland Sea, in darkness and crushing pressure, the Freya Hydrate Mounds are quietly ...

With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

The giant snails of New Zealand are big, slimy, and at risk. Park rangers in New Zealand have spent over a decade trying to save them, and now, they're getting results. In the forests of New Zealand's ...

In the forests of New Zealand's North Island, park rangers have been working for more than a decade to save a threatened population of giant snails. Now, these are not your average garden snails. They ...