The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel is continuing with its seasonal lecture series, which is ...

Big Island Abalone was founded in 1988 and has been owned by KOWA since 2018. Now, it annually produces 100 tons of the ...

A tiny sea creature, measuring less than a quarter of an inch and thought by many who have photographed it to be a shrimp, ...

To avoid dehydration, gastropods secrete a layer of mucus, or slime, which covers their bodies. While snails have shells to help protect their skin from drying out, slugs must find other ways to ...

Snails (Gastropods). Snails are part of the Gastropod class, easily recognized by their spiral shells and muscular "foot." ...

Due to having a soft abdomen, they are notorious for utilising mollusc shells, as well as pieces of coral skeleton and even pieces of litter such as bottle tops when the opportunity arises. Most ...

The gastropods might appear abundant ... In Florida, you cannot purchase a shell with a living conch inside or with an off-center hole larger than a 16th of an inch in diameter through its ...

Theyll eat pretty much whatever they can find, from plant matter to animal waste (and, in some cases, even other snails).Like learning about snail facts? You’ll love learning facts about fireflies, ...

All of them belong to the class Gastropoda, a grouping that includes the humble snail, but the nudibranchs gave up their shell many millions of years ago, instead relying on stings, toxicity or foul ...

Each stone features a hard core encased in a sandy outer shell. Their remarkable ability ... evidenced by the fossils of bivalves and gastropods found within the stones. Earthquakes and geological ...