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…
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Oceanography
1001 types of self-defense of marine animals
There are dozens of types of pagoda snails with all sizes, beautiful shells, enough colors. All of them have poison. It develops a unique hunting technique: tuberculosis…
Oceanography
Nautilus pompilius - Nautilus pompilius
Under the seabed a few hundred meters deep in the tropics, tropical Asia has a primitive animal species, which is the British snail. It can freely regulate the gas distr…
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…
Oceanography
Snail species 'wearing armor'
Researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural History have discovered one of the world's most unusual snails. They had a hard iron layer clinging tightly to each other,…
Archeology
Dead snails stuck in amber 99 million years
The group of scientists discovered the fossil snail 0.5cm long, the oldest specimen to date has preserved the soft body.
Archeology
Find the world's oldest fishing hook
Archaeologists have found the world's oldest fishing hook in a cave on Japan's Okinawa island.
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
Ancient people eat snails from 30,000 years ago
A new archaeological excavation in Spain reveals that humans eat snails from the Paleolithic period 30,000 years ago.
Archeology
People in Kien Giang possess three fossil samples dating back millions of years
Truong Van Chien, 56, in Rach Gia City, owns fossils of two snails dating back 130 million years and of a species in the rhino family for millions of years.
Archeology
The secret of the remains of 12,000 years old
Unique shroud - putting sea snail into the eye socket of the dead was discovered by archaeologists, Vietnam Institute of Archeology at Phia Vai cave in Coc Ngan village,…
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.
Archeology
Found fossils 500 million years of snail relatives
Fossils of a snail-like creature, living in the seabed 500 million years ago, have revealed light on the origin of modern snails, shellfish and squid species.
Archeology
The 5-year-old girl dug snail shell 160 million years
A 5-year-old English girl accidentally
Archeology
The oldest jewelry in the world
The oldest pieces of man-made jewelry were discovered by scientists. They include 3 snails that date to 90,000 - 100,000 years old. These pea-shaped objects have similar…