High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. Scientists have known that by studying these scars they can glean ...

Black turban snails are small marine snails that make tasty prey for crabs. Failed crab attacks leave scars on a snail’s shell. By analyzing the rate of scarring and the size of the snail when it was ...

Just as southpaw baseball pitchers confuse right handed-hitters, and left-handed boxers throw punches from surprising angles, southpaw snails are more likely than their right-handed cousins to survive ...

This hermit crab anemone lives on a tun snail’s broken shell. After paging through my books and getting nowhere, I sent my pictures to John Hoover, author of several excellent local marine guides. As ...

Hermit crabs are more than happy to let snails build them a perfect home. Hermit crabs are obsessed with snail shells. These crafty little crabs, found in California's rocky intertidal zone, are more ...

It might be a new year, but for North Carolina's environment there are many of the same problems from species that shouldn't be here or have been drawn to the Tar Heel State by our warming weather ...

The long-clawed hermit crab (Pagurus longicarpus) is commonly found in tidal pools along the islands coasts. This one is using a mud snail shell for protection, though many prefer the shells of the ...

Dense groups of marine snails called Littorina saxatilis once thrived on a group of Swedish islands called the Koster archipelago. But in 1988, a massive bloom of toxic algae hit the islands, and ...

Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists' eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom ...