In the past, the last thing that came to mind when I thought of snails and slugs was beauty. A little bit of disgust and ...

The snail lives within its shell like tube, burrowed into a rock or other substrate. Bieler et al. (2023), PeerJ, DOI 10.7717/peerj.15854 ...

The Little Aral Sea has lost a third of its water. Kazakh fishermen, whose livelihoods are becoming more difficult every year, worry it may repeat the fate of the Aral Sea, which largely dried up ...

The words "coral reef" evoke a riot of color and life. But the ecosystem's disappearing. Now, new evidence points to an ally for the coral reef: a little creature called the sea cucumber.