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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Tiny janitors to the rescue: Why Florida’s springs need more snails and less slime
For decades, the green, stringy algae choking Florida’s iconic crystal-clear springs has been blamed almost entirely on one ...
The pair behind Birdsongs tackles another science topic—geometry in the animal world. Whether addressing hexagonal beehive cells or a snail's spiral shell, brisk rhymes draw attention to nature's math ...
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