Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...
Beach goers have expressed concern "chunks of rubber" washing up on beaches are some form of man-made pollutant. Some believe ...
Nature is full of strange and unique survival techniques, but perhaps none as unusual as the ability for certain living ...
While many people picture small garden snails, some species grow to astonishing sizes and can weigh several pounds. One of ...
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 ...
Deep-Sea Vents and the Mystery of Life’s Origins - our report in category News in DiveInside - the fresh online magazine of Taucher.Net ...
Following a massive cryovolcanic eruption, the mysterious Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been morphed into a giant spiral and is now shining 100 times brighter than normal. When you purchase ...
Sea mollusc shells are patterned not through conscious control, but by chemistry acting at the shell’s growing edge. A thin strip of tissue known as the mantle secretes both the shell material and its ...
Hawaii’s land snails are disappearing at a pace that has scientists using words like “devastated” and “erased.” A sweeping new review led by University of Hawaiʻi researcher Robert Cowie finds that ...
If you want a quiet but brutally clear signal of how badly biodiversity is unraveling on islands, look at land snails. A major new review led by Robert Cowie at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa ...
A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...
This is a house... and a skeleton. But you probably know it as a snail shell. Snails are actually born with their shells when teeny tiny snails hatch out of their eggs, they already have a shell ...