Scientists compared the scarring of California black turban snail shells with fossilized shells to help understand crab population changes. Credit: Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Docent / CC via Flickr ...

Black turban snails are small marine snails that make tasty prey for crabs. Failed crab attacks leave scars on a snail’s shell. By analyzing the rate of scarring and the size of the snail when it was ...

Just as southpaw baseball pitchers confuse right handed-hitters, and left-handed boxers throw punches from surprising angles, southpaw snails are more likely than their right-handed cousins to survive ...

Hermit crabs are more than happy to let snails build them a perfect home. Hermit crabs are obsessed with snail shells. These crafty little crabs, found in California's rocky intertidal zone, are more ...

Dense groups of marine snails called Littorina saxatilis once thrived on a group of Swedish islands called the Koster archipelago. But in 1988, a massive bloom of toxic algae hit the islands, and ...

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the hermit crab that a Nigerian lady saw outside her compound.