There is a remarkable snail with breathtakingly beautiful shells that can only be found in Cuba. It is not native to any ...

The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology substitute snail shells for limestone, revealing their utility in making building ...

We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...

Mexican architecture studio Lanza Atelier has taken an "introspective" approach to this house in Cancun, which incorporates sea-snail shells into its concrete surfaces and features a curved ...

A woman has urged people to be careful when picking shells up on the beach after she says she nearly died after picking up a shell that was home to a highly venomous ...

She held it for about 30 seconds before noticing something inside: a live cone snail. Taken aback, Rawls replaced the shell in the water. She posted a few TikTok videos showing her misstep.

A new exhibit has hatched at the Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth entitled "Marvelous Mollusks: The ...

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

To prepare for sea level rise, scientists installed textured tiles on San Francisco’s seawall to see what material best ...

Carly Hulse, the Senior Aquarist at Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum and Aquarium on Sanibel removes a deer cowrie from a tank on ...

A crab believed to be found in the Pacific's Pitcairn Islands was recently spotted with a rather unusual shell: a baby doll's head. Typically, hermit crabs use abandoned sea snail shells as their ...