The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

Snail meat has been on the Nigerian table long before anyone called it a business. In Yoruba households, it shows up in ...

A small wetlands preserve at the Del Webb community in Tradition has become a nesting spot for the snail kite in St. Lucie ...

Everglades snail kites and other birds are thriving in wetlands this developer preserved. Babies being born shows benefits of ...

How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia ...

Nature Created These Animal Patterns and They Look Almost Too Perfect to Believe ...

Some animals carry patterns so precise and mathematically exact that scientists struggle to explain how nature produced them ...

The Texas Standard is excited to share the Beachchombing Report from Jace Tunnell, Director of Community Engagement for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The series ...

Some fish build nests the hard way. They seize an abandoned snail shell, bury it in sand, and move in. For one small East African species, it is routine. Aquarium guides have covered it for decades.

Ants, like humans, have garbage. They dispose of their trash outside their nest in a dump called a midden, and the things they discard — seeds, rocks, dead nestmates — hold clues about their diet and ...

Almost two miles beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean, a hydrothermal vent spews sulfur into the inky black waters. On its lip, a small snail is not only basking in the poison but converting it into ...