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Citizens of Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, were recently treated to an alien sight along its beach shore: a blanket of thousands of pearly orbs strewn about the sand. The orbs, it turns out, ...

The striking purple sea snail (Janthina) found after washing up on a beach in La Jolla, California. (Image: Natural History Museum) A rare purple Janthina sea snail washed up on La Jolla beach, ...

The margarita sea snail, which shoots out a toxic mucus web to catch prey, was discovered on a coral reef in the Florida Keys and was named after Buffett, who died on Sept. 1. When you purchase ...

Most of the sea snails in this tide pool cruise around searching for food. But not the scaled wormsnail. It cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using the one thing a snail has plenty of: ...