The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

Snail meat has been on the Nigerian table long before anyone called it a business. In Yoruba households, it shows up in ...

YouTube A BBC Earth video is giving viewers a rare glimpse of a unique spider in southern Madagascar. In footage that has ...

The goblin shark, or Mitsukurina owstoni, is among the most peculiar of sea animals. Tragically overshadowed in pop culture by its more fearsome cousins, the goblin shark leads a relatively mysterious ...

Once abundant in California, the white abalone had all but vanished. Now, thanks to an innovative breeding program, it’s staged a remarkable comeback On a sunny January afternoon in Bodega Bay, some ...

The freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) is a Neotropical species with 2n = 36 chromosomes and no sex chromosomes (Goldman et al., 1984). This species has been a model ...

With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, antibiotics have been widely used in human medical care, livestock and poultry and aquaculture (Danner et al., 2019). A large amount of ...

Explore the fascinating world of miniature snakes, often overlooked yet crucial to ecosystems. From the critically endangered Barbados threadsnake, the world's smallest, to the widespread Brahminy ...

Behavioural experiments in shell-dwelling cichlid fish reveal evolutionary adaptations in parents and offspring that control the timing of emergence from the nest. To mimic the empty snail shells that ...

More than 1,300 tiny snails were released into the wild after a captive breeding effort. One baby snail is shown here on a British five pence coin. Chester Zoo / Cover Images via AP Just a few years ...