For the snail that gets darted, it’s not good news; a 2015 study of the land snail species Bradybaena pellucida found that ...

In 2015, researchers discovered that some species, like Conus geographus, make venoms that contain con-insulin, a toxin that ...

You might think of snails as the little shelled creatures that you find crawling in your garden, or even as a delicacy of ...

To accurately reflect our sources, this article uses terms like “male," “man,” and "female" as the sources use them. Anatomy of the Testes Most males are born with two testes (testicles). These are ...

By Mekado Murphy ‘Conclave’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Edward Berger narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Ralph Fiennes. By Mekado Murphy ‘Smile 2’ | Anatomy of a Scene ...

In the dangerous expanses of open water, it can pay to be a small fish. So small, in fact, that you can hide in a snail shell. Meet evolution's curiosities from Tanganyika. Based upon chutzpah to ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine. The thyroid gland. Prakash, Rajini T, Ramachandran A, Savalgi GB, Venkata SP, Mokhasi V. Variations in the anatomy of the thyroid gland: clinical implications of a cadaver ...

Samples of snail shells collected from the skerry in different years, demonstrating the changes from a Crab ecotype to a Wave ecotype. (© ISTA/Kerstin Johannesson) In the Koster Islands area, L.

A snail is an equally comforting and discomfiting creature. Its ornamental shell is both a home and armor. Its glacial pace, often accompanied by a viscous sludge it leaves behind, make it a messy ...

During an educational field trip yesterday afternoon, a Middle Tennessee State University student suffered a dramatic fall of approximately 80 feet into Snail Shell Cave. According to WSMV4 ...

Elliot also argues that it helps us build constrictive shells around ourselves -- like snail shells, perhaps. Our protagonist is Grace Pudel, voiced with a quirky warmth and plenty of empathy by ...