Researchers in Japan have altered the destiny of a rout of snails by changing the chirality of their shells before birth. By delicately manipulating a batch of developing embryos, the scientists ...

The chambered nautilus is a sea creature that belongs in the same class as the octopus. Unlike the octopus, it has a hard shell that’s divided into chambers. As the nautilus matures and grows, it ...

ICHIKAWA, Chiba -- Spiral shells, which were an important food source for people in the Jomon Period (around 14,000 to 300 B.C.), have been found inhabiting the Sanbanze tidal flat here in Tokyo Bay ...

How does a species survive hundreds of millions of years unfazed? You must live in a shell – and it must grow with you, chamber by chamber Where to start with the nautilus: at the centre of the spiral ...