The Geographer Cone Snail, a beautiful but deadly ocean predator, uses a potent neurotoxic venom delivered via a harpoon-like tooth to paralyze prey instantly. While its sting can be fatal to humans, ...

With its small shell glinting beneath tropical waters, the Geographer Cone Snail is no ordinary ocean mollusc. Beneath its elegant spiral lies venom potent enough to kill a human. Found across ...

“People can’t get enough food in one day,” said Marcel Sebastian, an elderly fisherman I met in the village. He’s been ...

The new species can be distinguished from related species in South India and Sri Lanka by a unique combination of shell characters, including its conical shape and prominent sculpting with a raised ...

It’s so she can hang out with what’s in there: snails. Really she just wants to count them – or any evidence of them. And her description of these little beings with eyes on two stalks and little ...

Malacologists Ken Hayes and Norine Yeung spoke to The Conversation’s Catherine Cruz about native snails and conservation.

Some of these invasive garden snails spread serious diseases, while others cause severe damage to fruits and other crops, so ...

The snail is one of the UK's Biodiversity Action Plan Species, making its conservation a high priority, and has caused ...

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.

The storyline of “Agantuk” revolves around a 10-year-old boy named Kajol. He lives with his mother and ailing grandmother, struggling to make ends meet. One day, his long-lost father, who had ...

Salt & Straw and Taco Bell have resurrected a legendary sweet treat in time for Halloween. The Tacolate—a redux of the ChocoTaco, the taco-shaped ice cream treat Klondike discontinued in 2022 that ...