While not harmful to humans, the moon snail is a predator that uses slow and methodical processes to consume clams and other ...

The tide is heading out and the sandy stretch of beach and tide pools are exposed. Kéet, my border collie, bounds along beside me. Up the beach, near the short trailhead, my dad sits on a log. I walk ...

If you were walking on the beach and saw these strange-looking objects at your feet, what would you think they were? Rubber gaskets? Toilet plungers? Many well-meaning people who come across these ...

These days, the digging isn't so good. The clam harvest in far eastern Maine has dropped sharply in recent years, and clam diggers say one big reason is an onslaught of the carnivorous moon snail. The ...

"Not garbage! Not an alien!" the Seaside Aquarium posted on Facebook recently. "It's a giant marine snail egg casing!" Fully grown, the Lewis' moon snail can grow up to 5.5 inches. The Washington ...

If you’ve been on the beach at Kiawah Island lately, you might have seen a lot of these strange looking objects. They’re not trash. Town of Kiawah Island photo One of South Carolina’s popular coastal ...

Just recently, Gulf Coast Bird Observatory’s biology intern Morgan and I were surveying Quintana Beach for non-breeding wintering plovers. We did not find any plovers, but we did find something very ...

This story was originally published August 2017. Maybe collecting shells is a favorite pastime of yours, but you don’t know which is a moon snail and which is a mud snail. Or, you’re walking along the ...

The thing at left looks like a piece of old rubber tire coated with sand, but it’s actually a Moon Snail egg case, sometimes called a sand collar. Carly Vester Contributing Writer Every year, as the ...