Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over ...

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes.

The Coonamessett Farm Foundation is trying to create a market for species that prey on bivalves — especially scallops, which ...

Few people probably know that snails have teeth–and quite a few of them. They can not only rasp food but also cut with enormous force. PETBOOK explains why the native Roman snail performs such ...

Some of nature’s most mesmerizing works of art might just be hanging in your backyard. The artist is an orb weaver spider.

With only four sessions permitted each season – each limited to just one hour between 7am and 8am – abalone fishers have ...

A new study published in Conservation Biology examines the behavior and distributions of queen conch (Aliger gigas) to guide ...

Exeter budget committee advises against the town paying $35,000 for Pairpoint Park project designs. Here's why and what's ...

When it comes to resolutions, I am more of the Mae West way of thinking: “I generally avoid temptation, unless I can’t resist ...

In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...

At the forecourt of the historic Elmina Castle, where the Atlantic Ocean meets centuries of painful slave history and coconut trees sway gently in the coastal breeze, conch shells are being ...

A FAMILY claim a builder has left them trapped in a dangerous house, £95,000 out of pocket and their home standing over a pit ...