Shell of New Species of Land Snail Coils Its Own Way
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One snailâs shell is more like a rocket engine than a natural formation.
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The species found in the mountains of Indonesia may be new to science, but not to Sherlock Holmes.
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VYEBOOM, South Africa -- It takes a certain eye to look at snails crawling over one another and see them as a escargots bubbling in garlic butter, never mind a means for poor parents to feed their children.
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A puffer fish genome sequence sheds light on human biology, and tells a twisted evolutionary story. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Scientists discover how the skin of the fingertips protects itself against a common bug that causes diarrhoea.
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The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics that change in motion.
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It's a rock! It's a coral! No, it's an octopus. Watch an underwater "master of disguise" literally change its spots to avoid predators and stalk prey.
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Vertebrate Paleontologist Amy C. Henrici of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh holds a stone fossil of a new genus and species of terrestrial adopted amphibian that lived in the Pennsylvanian Period, about 300 million years ago, Monday
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SPACE.com / Three new species of an ancient marine reptile, including a pregnant fossil, were recently discovered by University of Alberta paleontologists&mdash;under a pingpong table.
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A spectacularly quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armored body prowled the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth, scientists said.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Two new invasive species have recently been found along the South Carolina coast - a massive barnacle that dwarfs those found in the state as well as the Asian green mussel, which reproduces quickly and can pose a threat to floating docks.
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Cumberland elktoe, oyster mussel, Cumberlandian combshell, purple bean and rough rabbitsfoot are not children&#39;s book characters.
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A fossil found in Wyoming resolves a puzzle over when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food.
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Researchers working off coastal Georgia have discovered what could be three new species of bottom-dwelling creatures known as sea squirts.
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The Calayan Rail, Gallirallus calayaensis, discovered by scientists in the northern tip of Babuyan islands in the Philippines archipelago. Photo: Des Allen/AP.
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By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Jun. 3--A colorful butterfly that is as imperiled as the prairie habitat it depends on is making a bit of a comeback here in South Sound.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.