These creatures are a species of predatory sea snail known for hunting small fish. They are typically found in reefs in the ...

Pteropods: Seawaters are already corrosive enough in some areas to erode the shells of these small sea “butterflies.” Pteropods are tiny snails that are found throughout the oceans and are an ...

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 ...

But halfway across the world, there's another type of snail that is just as popular. And it's called ốc, or "sea snails." In the streets of Vietnam, people have been eating them for centuries.

The rough periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis) is a small species of sea snail that is common to shores around the North Atlantic ...

The sea snail with shell measures a little less than ... It is considered to be either extinct or too small in number in areas around the Shikoku and Honshu regions. Its detailed ecology had ...

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 ...