Researchers in Japan have altered the destiny of a rout of snails by changing the chirality of their shells before birth. By delicately manipulating a batch of developing embryos, the scientists ...

Ammonites are a group of extinct cephalopod mollusks with ribbed spiral shells. They are exceptionally diverse and well known to fossil lovers. Researchers have developed the first biomechanical model ...

As stars age, they often shed their skins, so to speak, casting off expansive shells of dust and gas into interstellar space. As stars age, they often shed their skins, so to speak, casting off ...

Sea shells are abundant on the New Jersey shores. There are the black ridged scallop shells that look like accordion fans, the pretty and delicate spiral shells that come in various patterns and ...

Symmetry is a feature of many plants, animals and even some molecules — like water. But that’s not the case with snails and their coiled shells. They are chiral — asymmetrical in such a way that they ...

Ammonites are a tale of two textures. The prehistoric cephalopods were composed of fleshy soft tissue (the living bit of the animals) and hard external shells, which, according to a paper published ...

Built in 1987 by Design Group Architects in the Chapel area of Sedona, the home has just found a new owner—after less than two months on the market. The sale closed for $2.5 million earlier this week, ...

During a day at the beach, it’s common to see people walking up and down the shore collecting seashells. As a paleontologist and marine ecologist, we look at shells a bit differently than the average ...

Walking along the ocean shore, little treasures dot the wrack zone. Twisted into the seaweed or caught in the waves, there’s driftwood, smoothed-out rocks, perfectly worn pieces of sea glass and ...