Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video shows ...

You walk along the beach these days and it looks fairly empty compared to the summer; no more crowds, few dogs, even the wrack line is sparse. But here and there are clusters of washed up shells, ...

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 30, 2019 : With the use of ultra-high-speed videography, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Associate Professor Emanuel Azizi and colleagues from Occidental College Los Angeles have ...

Of the many mysterious things you can find while beachcombing, one of the most difficult to understand is (I think) the egg collar of the moon snail. These beautifully-sculpted ribbons of sand show up ...