The gastropod shell is an animal shell which is part of the body of a gastropod or snail. It is an external skeleton or exoskeleton, which serves not only for muscle attachment, but also for ...

Photis conchicola is a tube-building marine amphipod that uses empty gastropod shells as a portable shelter. Observations in San Luis Obispo County, California, revealed that small (1-10 mm) empty ...

Gastropod shell morphologies are famously diverse but generally share a common geometry, the logarithmic coil. Variations on this morphology have been modeled mathematically and computationally but ...

Deep within the Kairei Indian hydrothermal vent field, two-and-one-half miles below the central Indian Ocean, scientists have discovered a gastropod mollusk, whose armor could improve load-bearing and ...

Sometimes we just need a little help to get by in life. A nudge, some encouragement or a simple pat on the back will suffice. Being stuck to a rock is not a real good way to avoid predators, unless ...

A mollusk discovered just a decade ago called the scaly-foot gastropod doesn’t sound like the toughest of creatures. But researchers have found that its armor could help engineers improve load-bearing ...

Life at a snail’s pace is anything but slow or boring. My focus since arriving at Palmer Station has been chasing after small to wee tiny snails that live on a very large brown alga easily collected ...

MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (UPI) --Researchers in Russia have discovered a new species of luminous polyps in the Red Sea. The fluorescent sea creatures form small colonies on the shells of Nassarius margaritifer, ...

Few things in nature are as beautiful and fascinating as seashells, with their graceful spirals, marvelous shapes, and dazzling colors. However, the handsome homes of snails (gastropods) are built ...

From the depths of a deep-sea hot-water vent in the Indian Ocean comes Crysomallon squamiferum, a creature unlike anything ever seen before. Discovered over 10 years ago, it looks like a rather humble ...

Evolution is repetitive, especially if it produces adaptations that work well. If it’s all about survival, spines do the trick throughout the mollusk world. Scorpion Spider Conch (Lambis scorpio) ...