Scientists uncover rare parasitic snails living inside sea cucumbers in Japan—offering new insights into unusual animal relationships.

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We ...

Viral TikTok shows woman's panic in Japan after she handled the shell of one of the world's deadliest snails. Cone snails use ...

Looking up the shell soon after, she discovered the pretty thing was a marbled cone and that the snail living inside had a ...

Kyoto, Japan -- Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We can see snails leading similar lives, slimy but not ...

Scientists have discovered a new sea snail that has similar coloring to a margarita cocktail. The bright yellow snail inspired its name Cayo margarita — a nod to Jimmy Buffet's song ...

Inside a walled area on the site, ... The entrance to the cave was also decorated with a small sea snail that was stuck to the rock with stucco, confirming that the cave was sealed by Mayans.

Beckylee Rawls was out exploring the tidepools when she noticed the top of a beautiful shell. She picked it up and held it ...

Snails are packing dozens of rows of pearly whites, with a single snail boasting anywhere between 2000 and 15,000 teeth between its jaws. Up close, the inside of a snail’s mouth looks like it ...

A woman who 'almost died' from handling a specific type of shell has urged all holidaymakers to take care when exploring ...

For every snail that successfully arrived in a strange new land on a bird or a floating branch, countless millions must have been washed, blown, or flown out to sea without such luck.