The white disk visible on the foot of this live Hawaiian turban snail detaches when the snail dies, washing up on the beach as a so-called cat’s eyes. Turban snails were named for their resemblance to ...

Black turban snails are small marine snails that make tasty prey for crabs. Failed crab attacks leave scars on a snail’s shell. By analyzing the rate of scarring and the size of the snail when it was ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. Scientists have known that by studying these scars they can glean ...

SUSAN SCOTT PHOTO A great green turban snail operculum closes tight on a Tahiti reef. The snail is the great green turban, or Turbo marmoratus, a nocturnal algae-grazer native to the Indian and ...

Black turban snails escape predation by sea stars by crawling out of tide pools. Experiments at UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory show that the snails lose this escape response as waters become ...

To escape from predatory sea stars, black turban snails grazing on algae will quickly crawl up and out of tide pools. But as seawaters become more acidic, snails are losing their flight response. The ...

Yanli Li, 43, and Jing Yang, 47, are facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly taking two buckets of black turban snails from the tide pools near Lovers Point in Pacific Grove last spring. It is ...

Ocean acidification makes it harder for sea snails to escape from their sea star predators, according to a study. The findings suggest that by disturbing predator-prey interactions, ocean ...