But halfway across the world, there's another type of snail that is just as popular. And it's called ốc, or "sea snails." In the streets of Vietnam, people have been eating them for centuries.

These creatures are a species of predatory sea snail known for hunting small fish. They are typically found in reefs in the ...

feast on a small sea snail species called Limacina helicina, whose clear, glass-like shells measure 3 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Katsunori Kimoto, a senior researcher at the Japan Agency for ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. These findings inspired Ho Yan Yeung, a postdoctoral researcher in Helena Safavi-Hemami’s group at the University of Utah, to investigate whether ...

PETALING JAYA: Island tour guide Muhammad Aswat Azdha Idris has become a viral sensation on TikTok with his live sessions featuring the unique spectacle of sea snail racing. The excitement began ...

Stromboidea sea snails provide some of the best examples ... mobile eyestalks, others have small ones on tiny eyestalks that are tucked under their oral tentacles. As part of her Ph.D. Alison ...

Cornell University marine ecologists and computer scientists have shown that grazing by sea snails and other marine herbivores has a big impact on the scale of seagrass wasting disease — contributing ...

New painkiller, Prialt, based on the venom of a sea snail will be available in Britain from today. The drug Prialt, or ziconotide, has resulted from over 20 years' of research by the scientist ...