The mystery of the volcano-dwelling snail and its iron shell has been unravelled by scientists after its genome was decoded for the first time. The scaly-foot snail survives in what researchers have ...

The iron-plated shell of a deep water snail could inspire a new class of life-saving armor for soldiers, according to new research published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National ...

Biomimicry: is there anything it can’t do? The latest example of science imitating nature comes from researchers at MIT who have discovered that the shell of a tiny deep-sea snail could give way to ...

The shell that protects snails living on deep-sea vents could inspire the next generation of body armour for humans, say scientists. They penetrated it with a diamond-tipped probe — applying the same ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because when ...

The Credible Hulk is a self-described “[p]ro-science skeptical activist, musician, and polymath promoting science education and smashing pseudoscience and denialism” and posts fun facts and memes on ...

In what is arguably the most famous scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur faces the Black Knight, relieving him of his limbs even though he's wearing some nice chain mail. But ...

It has always been a mystery why the scaly-foot snail can live in “impossible living conditions” but thanks to scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the genome has ...