A snail from the Canary island of La Gomera produces its impressive camouflage layer by itself in the process of an unexpectedly complex behavioural pattern. The snail grazes lichen material from the ...
CreatureCast - Flamingo Tongue Snails from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. This is the fourth of four contributions from undergraduates in Casey Dunn's Bio0041 Invertebrate Zoology class. This episode is ...
Their smooth white shells are prized by collectors who scour beaches for those that have washed ashore, but as these pictures reveal, egg cowrie sea snails true beauty emerges in the ocean. The marine ...
Some ocean-dwelling creatures ended up with common names that seem to belong to another animal entirely: A sea cow has neither horns nor an udder. A sea lion lacks a tawny mane. And jellyfish aren't ...