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

The MBU puffer - also known as the Mbu puffer - has one of the most powerful bites in the freshwater fishkeeping hobby, with ...

Australian trumpet, the world’s largest snail, is found in Australian coastal waters. Learn more about Syrinx aruanus.

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Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx aruanus, known as the Australi.

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

Following a massive cryovolcanic eruption, the mysterious Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been morphed into a giant spiral and is now shining 100 times brighter than normal. When you purchase ...

It’s so she can hang out with what’s in there: snails. Really she just wants to count them – or any evidence of them. And her description of these little beings with eyes on two stalks and little ...

US artist Carol Bove has made New York's famed Guggenheim Museum far more comfortable in good news for locals and tourists alike. Alongside dozens of huge sculptures, paintings and drawings, the ...

How do bees everywhere know how to construct their hives with rows and rows of perfect hexagons?Why do snail shells, ...

Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snails A button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after ...