Sea butterflies flit through the ocean on gossamer wings, each species with a style of its own. These tiny marine snails, or thecosomes, migrate up to surface waters at night to feed and sink to ...

Snails usually lumber along on their single fleshy foot; but not sea butterflies (Limacina helicina). These tiny marine molluscs gently flit around their Arctic water homes propelled by fleshy wings ...

Equipped with high-speed, high-resolution video, scientists have discovered important new information on how marine snail larvae swim, a key behavior that determines individual dispersal and ...

A time-lapse image sequence of a sea butterfly shows different stages of its wing beat. Some ocean-dwelling creatures ended up with common names that seem to belong to another animal entirely: A sea ...

An invasive species of snails known to be deadly to humans and disastrous to marine life has slithered its way into North Carolina. The toxic Apple Snails were discovered last month in multiple ...

For someone with a lot of knowledge about wildlife crammed into my head, you would think I’d have no problem coming up with topics for these articles. However, I have to remind myself that not ...

An invasive snail species that poses known threats to aquatic life and can cause deadly disease in humans was found recently along the Lumber River in North Carolina, officials said. Apple snails, a ...

North Carolina wildlife officials on Thursday released 2,000 endangered snails back into the wild. The Magnificent Ramshorn snails were released into a pond in Brunswick County. According to the North ...