Beaches often gift us treasures like seashells or sea creatures, but sometimes, certain rare and unique creatures wash up on ...

A rare purple sea snail (Janthina) washes ashore in San Deigo. Scientists reveal its floating bubble-raft lifestyle, striking violet colour and how ocean currents unexpectedly carried it to the beach.

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Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, says Geoffrey Trussell, an evolutionary biologist and professor at ...

The margarita sea snail, which shoots out a toxic mucus web to catch prey, was discovered on a coral reef in the Florida Keys and was named after Buffett, who died on Sept. 1. When you purchase ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The animal kingdom is full of creatures that make themselves look bigger to ward off predators, but marine scientists have found a tiny sea snail that puts on its own light ...

Science has not exactly been kind to the rough periwinkle. For one, taxonomists keep forgetting the species, known to malacologists as Littorina saxatilis, exists. It’s been “discovered” so many times ...

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Scientists found a tiny sea animal with a translucent shell under rocks in Japan and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Hiroshi Fukuda On a sandy coastline of Japan, a small and ...

Bea Ramiro began to study the sea snail species Conus rolani more or less by chance. Together with two fishermen she was collecting material in the waters off the Philippine island of Cebu in 2018. At ...

Nearly a century after insulin was discovered, an international team of researchers including University of Utah Health scientists report that they have developed the world's smallest, fully ...