There is a kind of soft, toxic snail that lives in the sea called a Nudibranch. The many kinds of Nudibranch all have intense coloration and weird shapes — so weird, in fact, that National Geographic ...

Bea Ramiro began to study the sea snail species Conus rolani more or less by chance. Together with two fishermen she was collecting material in the waters off the Philippine island of Cebu in 2018. At ...

Spies with a penchant for exotic poisons can add a new one to their list – snail venom. For more than 23 years, Professor Baldomero M. Olivera has been studying snail venom. This week, his team at the ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The ocean holds a lot of beauty, from white sandy beaches to colorful coral reefs. Although it is home to many stunning sea creatures, it also holds many hidden dangers. There are ...

Unlike most snails that crawl along the seafloor, purple sea snails live their entire lives drifting at the ocean’s surface, ...

Cone snails have inspired humans for centuries. Coastal communities have often traded their beautiful shells like money and put them in jewelry. Many artists, including Rembrandt, have featured them ...

A sea snail living in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines may be able to help scientists develop an alternative to addictive painkillers like morphine, a new study concludes. Bea Ramiro began to ...