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Strange purple dye 'more expensive than gold' from sea snails
A Tunisian history enthusiast has tried to recreate making dye from sea snails that was once only used by members of the ancient royal family, the elite.
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Health
The venom of a sea snail can cure cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure
This finding may explain some of the side effects of drugs that block potassium pathways, such as cardiovascular and high blood pressure medications, and allow the prepa…
Oceanography
Sea snails 'disguise' the crust into an image like the Milky Way
By taking advantage of the outstanding colors available, with disguised disguise, a clever sea snail has breathtakingly set on its hard shells, making divers look stunne…
Oceanography
Transgender animals after collisions
Body contact can cause a male sea snail to quickly transform into females.
Oceanography
Rare 500 million year old sea snail after 31 years missing
An extremely rare species of sea snail, which has existed on Earth for 500 million years, has been discovered after 31 years
Oceanography
The most precious and rare marine life in the wild
In the fascinating natural world, there are many unusual creatures with unusual formations, including a sea snail and a rare fish with the most bizarre genitals in the w…
Oceanography
Discover 5 new species of sea snail
The group of Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek (Monteray Bay Aquarium) has discovered and described five new sea snail species in deep water from the western Pacific Ocean to the In…
Oceanography
The secret of the 'left hand' of the sea snail
The snails with shells rolled to the left have a great survival advantage, because the enemy has to give up on eating them. Conclusion published by American scientists o…
Oceanography
Pain reliever from sea snail
Conical sea snail is one of the most terrifying poisonous creatures of the ocean. They often inject enough toxins to paralyze the body, even killing the prey. Many medic…
Archeology
Found fossil sea snail over 240 million years in Nghe An
The Vietnam Museum of Nature recently received the largest form of sea snail fossil, first discovered in the Triassic stratigraphy in Vietnam.
Archeology
Detecting fossilized sea shells in Thien Duong cave
Sea snail is located next to a giant skylight, at the 7th kilometer in Thien Duong cave. Scientists also discovered many fossils of some oceanic crustaceans.
Animal world
Exotic transgender animals: Body collisions are ... transgender
Scientists discovered the sea snail, also known as Crepidula marginalis, which was born with a male genitalia and at a certain time they would turn into females.
Animal world
Detecting exotic snails swimming like butterflies in the ocean
Snails living in the cold waters of the Arctic, but swimming smoothly with soft wings like butterflies.
Animal world
Snails do not know how to swim, lifelong take foams to make houses
Purple snails can't swim but live on the beach with homemade rafts from ... their own saliva.
Animal world
Detecting sea snail species raising children 'enemy'
Scientists found that, on average, only a quarter of the eggs that snails Solenosteira macrospira males carry on their backs.