The sea snail with shell measures a little less than ... it is designated as a near-threatened species on the Environment Ministry’s Red List and listed in the Vulnerable (VU) category by ...

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from "The Lord of the Rings." Described in an article published in the open-access journal ...

The toxin, which is called consomatin, is from the geography cone snail. These creatures are a species of predatory sea snail ...

A deep-sea snail, many of Europe's fungi and half the freshwater fish in Japan are just some obscure additions to a list of threatened species. The Red List, a conservation status catalogue of ...

Though small, cone snails are formidable hunters, producing a variety of toxins—many of which are valuable for drug research—to immobilize prey and deter predators. In 2015, researchers discovered ...

feast on a small sea snail species called Limacina helicina, whose clear, glass-like shells measure 3 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Katsunori Kimoto, a senior researcher at the Japan Agency for ...

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings. In their research paper, the authors explain the name Idiopyrgus ...

Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius ... t have close relatives among other snails, so it really is a distinct evolutionary event.” Deep-sea mining, which involves scooping ...

MORRO BAY, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed changing the Endangered Species Act status of the Morro shoulderband snail from endangered to threatened. Found only in the Los ...