More than 8,000 people submitted name suggestions for a tiny mollusk pulled from a sunken log nearly three miles beneath the surface of the Northwestern Pacific. The animal, a chiton, now carries the ...

From a slow-moving snail to a venomous mammal, certain creatures carry compounds in their bodies that have already reshaped ...

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While people and many animals might look pretty symmetrical on the outside, inside our bodies we are all fundamentally asymmetric. For example, the human heart is found to the left of center. Snails ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa biologists have traced the snail's evolutionary history through its genome and ...

An international research team led by the Medical University of Vienna has investigated a new peptide derived from cone snail ...

The grove snail is the animal of the year 2025. According to the nature conservation organization Pro Natura, the little-noticed but widespread animal is intended to promote a respectful approach to ...

The global pandemic made 2020 an exhausting year, but for many people one thing brought some much-needed relief — animals. But it’s not just cats and dogs enjoying more of our attention; people have ...

Animals reproduce in one of two distinct ways: egg-laying or live birth. By studying an evolutionarily recent transition from egg-laying to live-bearing in a marine snail, collaborative research has ...