But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine snails combine exceptional ...

That outer casing is shaped like the shell of a marine snail, also known as a conch. The seafood filling, which is water soluble, serves as the bait, drawing in predators by releasing a strong odor.

Marine snails or conch in the Bahamas are at the brink of being wiped out due to overfishing. Experts believe the staple food source could cease to be commercially viable in six years.

One of the world’s biggest sea snails at risk of extinction. A century of unregulated harvesting for its gigantic shell has left the horse conch far more vulnerable than scientists realized.

The sex life of a conch is, for a snail, quite thrilling. In the spring and summer, the queen conch — a large, ornate species of marine snail — hunts for a mate in the warm, shallow waters of ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission research associate Dr. Ellery Lennon measures the total length of a Queen Conch before relocating it to deeper waters where the snail has a higher ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission research associate Dr. Ellery Lennon measures the total length of a Queen Conch before relocating it to deeper waters where the snail has a higher ...

July 1marks the start of the closed season for the queen conch, a large marine snail that is highly valued both for its meat and its shell. Over the next two mo.

In 2017, the Florida population of the iconic sea snail stood at 700,000 adult queen conchs. But after Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Ian in 2022, that number plummeted to 126,000, per the Miami Herald .

Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research suggests. While the basic eyes of most snails look like small black dots, conch snails known as strombids have eyes that ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission research associate Dr. Ellery Lennon measures the total length of a Queen Conch before relocating it to deeper waters where the snail has a higher ...