UNDERSTANDING past climates is crucial to understanding future ones, and few things have been more important to that historical insight than fossil foraminifera. Forams, as they are known, are ...

The blue-rayed limpet is a tiny mollusk that lives in kelp beds along the coasts of Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and the Canary Islands. These diminutive organisms -- as small as a ...

An odd new species of snail, with a translucent shell, was found about 3,000 feet underground in a Croatian cave. This new kind of snail appears to be blind, but seeing isn't a very important sense ...

The Noble Pen Shell, part of the Pinnidae family, is found in the Mediterranean Sea and is the largest of all pen shells, reaching up to 4 feet in size. This shell is known for its beautiful copper ...