Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

The black abalone mollusk (Haliotis cracherodii) is a delicacy in many regions of the world, with fancy restaurant diners ...

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Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...

Many people throw away their eggshells after cooking but there's no need to, according to gardening expert Simon Akeroyd who ...

A deep-sea catshark (Scyliorhinus haeckelii) documented at 198 meters on the outer edge of the continental shelf, near the ...

The slender relatives of hawks and eagles have had a bad-news, good-news, bad-news existence since 1967, when the bird landed ...

Invasive apple snails continue to spread in San Antonio’s River Walk. Officials are testing new barrier systems to curb reproduction.

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The air temperature was in the mid-twenties and a snowstorm predicted to dump six to eight inches was heading toward Long Island, to arrive in the early evening. Given this, I thought what a fine time ...

In Da Nang, the unusual job of catching sea snails - by walking backward - peaks just before Tet, offering high earnings and ...

A lost ritual chamber sealed in stone may rewrite what we know about Mexico’s ancient cultures, and who vanished from history ...