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Seashells tend to appear quietly. After the tide pulls back, they are just there, mixed into the sand, sometimes whole, ...

Share your slug and snail findings and help science understand some of our slimy and spectacular local critters.

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes. The idea lingers. Snakes do not write or throw balls. They slide and ...

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Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

The echinops and echinacea are both great options for drought prone/dry areas and being perennials, they really are good ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges and microorganisms use another compound silica. There is also a group of ...