Deep within the Kairei Indian hydrothermal vent field, two-and-one-half miles below the central Indian Ocean ... foot gastropod," has a unique tri-layered shell that may hold insights for future ...

Researchers from the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) are drawing new biomimicry inspiration for body armor design from a hardy ocean snail that boasts a shell structure unlike ...

The Moskalev's Limpet is a small, cream-colored shell with a conical shape. This shell is found in the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean ... of the more unique shells ...

The shells themselves make this possible: Some of the oldest fossilized mollusk shells we find today originated 500 million years ago. Shells are a unique ... land and in the ocean, in deeper ...

Marko Blazevic via Unsplash As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker ... The bivalve’s shell is “nearly rectangular,” making it unique among other deep-sea bivalve ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name as when ...