A rare purple sea snail (Janthina) washes ashore in San Deigo. Scientists reveal its floating bubble-raft lifestyle, striking violet colour and how ocean currents unexpectedly carried it to the beach.

In Hindu mythology, Lord Shiva’s third eye is said to open only in moments of great transformation. What if this isn’t just a mythic symbol of cosmic vision but also a metaphor for renewal? Ever ...

It’s so she can hang out with what’s in there: snails. Really she just wants to count them – or any evidence of them. And her description of these little beings with eyes on two stalks and little ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

Horse conchs, the flashy marine snails that inhabit Florida’s colossal state seashell, live shorter lives and reproduce later than previously understood, according to new research that warns the Gulf ...

From tiger recoveries and chimpanzee genetics to AI conservation tools, this accessible overview includes exciting research ...

macOS 26 came out recently. One of the things that’s different about it is that the built-in applications all have loads of ...

The Model Play with Snails on a Bike Credit: Nico Fernandez It was the 80s and blue eye shadow was all the rage. The music was good. Not unlike today, elite teenage fashion models were shunted from ...

In 1995, divers first noticed a group of bizarre sandy "crop circles" on the seabed around Amami Oshima Island, southwest ...

On a hill in north London, about 100 metres above sea level, is the capital’s only commercial scale vineyard, Forty Hall. It ...

An aerial view of Tel Shikmona, on the rocky Mediterranean coast of northern Israel. Archaeologists have uncovered traces of nearly three millennia of habitation at the site, including evidence for a ...

About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls lived in a cave. Sometimes, they would cough up owl pellets containing the bones of their prey, which landed on the cave floor. And, researchers have just ...