Discovered 380 - 400m in the waters of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, this predator is one of 100 newly identified turrid gastropods. These deep-sea snails inject toxins into ...

How have eyes evolved in deep-sea gastropods? Have changes to diet enabled shallow water lineages to invade the nutrient-poor deep sea? Can complete mitochondrial genomes help resolve the phylogeny of ...

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Nudibranchs are gastropod molliuscs that have lost their shell as adults ... and can be found in tide pools and by SCUBA. There are spectacular deep-sea nudibranchs as well. Here is a new species of ...

Sunlight penetrates no farther than a few hundred feet down, leaving the deep-sea floor as dark as the ... Some creatures, such as the mollusks known as gastropod snails, feast on the bacteria ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

Executive order under review would bypass UN-backed body International Seabed Authority has yet to set rules NOAA would oversee permitting for deep-sea mining March 31 (Reuters) - The White House ...

When the researchers put the deep-sea sediment through a screen and sifted the smaller rocks and sand, they found a fossilized whorled shell, according to the study. The sample ca ...