Estivation is a trick used by some animals to get through dry spells. It is like hibernation, but is in the summer. Read more here.

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers ...

Drawing on his family’s foraging traditions, Stina’s chef Bobby Saritsoglou is showing Philly there’s more to Greek food than lamb and gyros.

As temperatures warm up in the Northern Hemisphere, one’s mind naturally turns to the outdoors and the garden — even if some of our gardens are still snow-covered. One secret to good ...

Wachmann, a cold-volcano comet that has long intrigued astronomers, recently became the focus of a stunning discovery. After a major explosive outburst on February 10, 2026, the comet’s coma expanded ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Island land snails are facing a serious threat of extinction, according to a new study from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Researchers found extinction rates for island ...

The RPG-09 Pot Mimic is a playful yet clever reimagining of one of fantasy's oldest monsters, brought to life as a highly detailed 1/12-scale collectible by Snail Shell. In classic RPG lore, Mimics ...

The Hearty Blueshell Snail is a one of the creatures found in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Most creatures drop recoverable materials and some are used for as ingredients for cooking, side ...

Snails are curious creatures. They can be found in abundance in a garden one day, and the next, they are nonexistent. Much of this has to do with the environment around them. When the weather is ...

What a bunch of slimeballs! In just the latest major theft of a French national treasure, bandits slipped into a famous snail farm in northern France and snatched nearly 1,000 pounds of escargot worth ...

Shell PLC (NYSE: SHEL) has finalized a deal with Equinor ASA (NYSE: EQNR) to merge their U.K. offshore oil and gas operations into a new company called Adura. The new company was launched on Monday ...

In the deep waters off central Japan, scientists have discovered a pale pink sea anemone, named Paracalliactis tsukisome, that builds its own shell-like home – then shares it with a hermit crab ...