The man collected the seashell while snorkeling in Egypt's Red Sea, totally unaware that the shell was teeming with life.

AKOUDA, Tunisia (AP) — In fields outside their hometown in central Tunisia, an increasing number of unemployed young men are ...

The ocean’s beauty often hides unexpected threats, and one diver’s recent experience in Egypt’s Red Sea serves as a chilling reminder. What started as an innocent underwater exploration quickly turned ...

Beige- and cream-colored stripes cover the snail’s spiraled shell, which protects the snail from predators and prevents it from drying out. Partula snails went extinct in the wild because of ano ...

A snorkeler in Egypt's Red Sea thought he came across a ... However, she cannot tell, based on the picture, if it is an empty shell or one with a live snail inside. "Cone snails are very venomous ...

In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, measuring the thickness and plasticity in samples of tidal snails. The first ...

The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously declared extinct in the wild, according to a release from the Zoological ...

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

A snorkeler in Egypt’s Red Sea had a near escape after encountering ... The picture shared online doesn’t make clear whether the shell had a live snail inside, or if it was simply an empty ...