A snorkeler in Australia found a shell tagged with a strangely specific number, kickstarting an online mystery about its ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

The black abalone mollusk (Haliotis cracherodii) is a delicacy in many regions of the world, with fancy restaurant diners ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

China’s rocket launches that passed over Palawan may seem harmless, but debris from separating rocket parts could pose serious consequences to marine life in one of the Philippines’ richest waters. On ...

Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...

The slender relatives of hawks and eagles have had a bad-news, good-news, bad-news existence since 1967, when the bird landed ...

Invasive apple snails continue to spread in San Antonio’s River Walk. Officials are testing new barrier systems to curb reproduction.

The air temperature was in the mid-twenties and a snowstorm predicted to dump six to eight inches was heading toward Long Island, to arrive in the early evening. Given this, I thought what a fine time ...

The Hands Gallery celebrates 50 years of supporting local artists in Boone. Read more about Tim Brown and Eric Reichard’s ...

Deep in the Indian Ocean, scientists have discovered a snail whose feet are covered in iron scales, making it look virtually ...