While they have no backbone, sunflower sea stars ( Pycnopodia helianthoides) mean business–especailly when faced with spiny ...

Sea otters are often portrayed as lovable and relaxed animals that spend their time goofing around. Or, simply floating on their backs in the water with their special rock. While this image is ...

Beachgoers in San Diego may have spotted some glistening, purple shells reminiscent of small gemstones in the sand recently.

In the study, the team looked at one of the most toxic marine cone snail –the geography cone. They are found along reefs in the Pacific and Indo-Pacific, where the snails stun and eat small fish.

She said the snails, which are kept afloat by a raft of air bubbles, may have been carried here in late June, when ocean ...

A deep sea biologist at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology has found that the snails undergo a unique metamorphosis, in which it grows a new internal organ that it ...