For millions of people with diabetes, insulin is essential medicine. But for some ocean-dwelling predators, insulin is a weapon. With a burst of venom, a fish-hunting cone snail can drop the blood ...

Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists' eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom wiped them out from the skerry. While the researchers intentionally brought ...

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An underwater closeup of the Keys Margarita Snail, Cayo margarita (new species) in the coral reef of the Florida Keys. Note the two long tentacles, used by the snail to spread the mucus net for ...

Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of life. Marine snails in the genus Plicopurpura are sacred to the Mixtec people ...

When I bought my first mystery snails, I wasn’t thinking about business. I wasn’t thinking about customers, shipping boxes, or publicity of any kind. I just needed a solution for algae. A small ...