If you have a kid, it is very possible they will never know the joy of receiving a handwritten letter. Email hasn’t totally replaced snail mail, but for most of us, the mailbox is for bills and Amazon ...

Bob Briola of Wylie has an insatiable curiosity and passion for a lot of things. These days, he's in his home workshop making two designs that give him a lot of pleasure. Briola makes rocking toys for ...

Scientists have discovered 115 new species in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia including a crocodile lizard and a snail-eating turtle that was spotted in a Thai food market. The species are ...

For the love of God, not the mollusks! Not the mollusks! Wait a minute they are invasives. Go ahead. Game on. Here we report the first observations of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta preying on a ...

Snails spend a third of their energy just producing mucus. But they apparently engage in energy conservation by taking advantage of mucus trails laid down by other snails. Weeee. That’s the sound a ...

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Reconstruction of a snail-eating turtle of the group Baenidae. It is sitting on a land turtle of the genus Basilemys, which became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period. In the background is a ...

We take a closer look at mollusks, one of the most diverse groups of animals on Earth, and break down how different species survive and compete in their environments. From slow, defenseless snails to ...

Paleontologists in Spain believe they unearthed a new prehistoric sea turtle species that may be among the largest ever, according to research published last week in the peer-reviewed journal ...