Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable ...

In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, ...

As scorpions continue to produce drops of liquid venom valued at around $39 million per gallon, they offer a compelling ...

ANAYO EZUGWU writes on his trip to Emerald Forest Reserve owned by Abayomi Farm Estate and how collaboration with Ikoyi ...

Around the country, firefly populations have reached historically low numbers. At one time, they lit up the night with their ...

Certain parasitic worms survive by taking control of snail behavior. Instead of hiding, infected snails are driven into exposed areas where predators can easily find them. The worms manipulate ...

Snails can hide in their shells for months or even years, slowing metabolism and sealing in moisture to survive harsh ...

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 ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La ...

In the shallow waters of the Florida Keys, juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters are unwittingly meeting their doom by stumbling ...