In Da Nang, the unusual job of catching sea snails - by walking backward - peaks just before Tet, offering high earnings and ...

Food can be wildly different depending on where you are in the world. What seems unusual or even unappetizing to some is ...

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could damage corals, including some of the only remaining ...

I do not take drugs. I am drugs. You can take me. I am a hallucinogen.” These are the famous words left by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí (1904–1989). Though it may sound like boasting, it is not an ...

In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

THE snail, Helix pomatia, concentrates more calcium per unit body-weight in lesser time than most terrestrial animals, that is, 20–40 gm. calcium per kgm., about 50 per cent of which is deposited in ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

The Friends of the Irish Environment maintain that a High Court settlement contained an order which ensured any future development would be 'bound by the objective of maintaining favourable ...

FIE director Tony Lowes claimed the Trump family, which acquired the golf resort in 2014, appears to regard a court order as 'nothing but a piece of paper' The Friends of the Irish Environment claims ...