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Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up the marine snails from the ...

In humans concentrations of carbon dioxide around 1%, normal is just a less than 0.04%, can make a person drowsy. Like a macroeconomics class. At 10% concentration, even with enough oxygen, carbon ...

Jumping sea snails may become sluggish due to ocean acidification, as lower pH levels disrupt their ability to flee predators, a new study finds. Some species of conch snails depend on a strong foot ...

Hot jumpers Snails on the Great Barrier Reef are able to leap the equivalent of their own body height to escape toxic predators. And the latest research suggests that they will be able to keep jumping ...

Uh oh! Did I just eat an endangered species? Fortunately, the queen conch (Strombus gigas) isn’t quite endangered (yet). But the species has been over-harvested in the Florida Keys, leading to a ...

Sea snails that leap to escape their predators may lose their extraordinary jumping ability because of rising carbon dioxide emissions, scientists have discovered. Researchers observed that the conch ...