News tagged with marine snails

Hitchhiking snails fly from ocean to ocean

Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million years -- both times probably ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Small sea snail damaging world's coral reefs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Victoria University research has found that a small sea snail may be causing significant damage to coral reefs in the Pacific, even more so than climate change or coral bleaching.

Biology / Ecology

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Self-defense strategies of moss: Chemists discover what spoils the appetite of slugs

Slugs are every gardener's enemy: They can destroy overnight, what he has sown and looked after lovingly. But snails don't like all plants in the same way - they shun moss. Why is that so?

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Food choices and location influence California sea otter exposure to disease

Sea otters living along the central California coast risk higher exposure to disease-causing parasites as a consequence of the food they eat and where they feed.

Biology /

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0