How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia variegata from Japan have both evolved a form of dynamic camouflage to survive.

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She blows seawater beneath her and crawls away from the egg mass, leaving a “sand collar” behind. The eggs develop and finally hatch into free-swimming larval stages, eventually developing a shell and ...

Hermit crabs have a bizarre trick for squeezing into shells that seem impossibly small, and scientists just figured out the ...

Here’s how to keep slugs from destroying your garden.

Keeping slugs and snails from eating your potted plants could be a case of simply utilising one surprising bathroom item, it has been claimed. Although they're viewed as pests, slugs and snails form ...

British multinational Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years even though it knew it was causing widespread pollution - despite a warning from its own staff that it was ...

More than 8,000 people submitted name suggestions for a tiny mollusk pulled from a sunken log nearly three miles beneath the ...

The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists. A new study provides more evidence that these shelled reptiles share a common ...

Frontline Congolese workers who conduct safe burials are key to containing what experts fear could become the worst ever ...

State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living ...