The rush of sunset on the 4th of July, the cool breeze just after as the sky gets darker and darker, racing to find the ...

Tortoise shell, or rather scales, is ... it may be bent into any shape. ... This article was originally published with the title “ Tortoise Shell ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No ...

How do shells get their shapes? These are the forces behind their twists and coils. Math and physics, along with a little evolutionary luck, combine to help form some of the world’s most ...

The Moskalev's Limpet is a small, cream-colored shell with a conical shape. This shell is found in the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean. Note to readers: This is Part 1 ...

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.

Though now extinct, ammonoids (a group of marine mollusks with shells) evolved for 350 million years, always with a tendency toward increasingly elaborate shell structures. Scientists have studied ...

After conducting field observations, the scientists deduced that the bent shape obscured an opening in the barnacles' shells, making it much more difficult for the snails to prey upon them.

New snail species with shell shaped like Picasso’s art discovered. Researchers propose a new method to classify snails based on shell geometry. Vishwam Sankaran. Monday 12 May 2025 12:21 BST.