Gardening can become a slimy nightmare in the warm months, when vegetables, flowers, fruit are all voraciously chomped to destruction by slugs and snails. "They like to eat the young seedlings of sown ...

Bea Ramiro began to study the sea snail species Conus rolani more or less by chance. Together with two fishermen she was collecting material in the waters off the Philippine island of Cebu in 2018. At ...

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MOBILE, Ala. -- Despite thousands of pounds of poison, hundreds of man hours and an all-out attack by state and federal biologists, Amazonian apple snails are still hanging on in Langan Municipal Park ...

Morphine is a synthetic narcotic designed to treat severe pain. As an opioid, tt is created from opium, or the seeds from certain poppy plants. While morphine has been a powerful pain management drug, ...

Before you squash or poison the next slug or snail you see in your garden, consider this: The British Royal Horticultural Society no longer classifies these gastropods as pests. Why on earth would a ...

Snails don't have to become the enemy of your garden. A few thoughtful changes can protect vulnerable plants while supporting ...

Cone snails have inspired humans for centuries. Coastal communities have often traded their beautiful shells like money and put them in jewelry. Many artists, including Rembrandt, have featured them ...

Some of the most powerful drugs in our medical arsenal come from animal venom. Ozempic was derived from Gila monsters, a lizard native to the southwestern US; Prialt, used to treat chronic pain in HIV ...

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MOBILE, Ala. -- More than a year after the discovery of giant, voracious South American apple snails in Mobile's Langan Municipal Park, the gastropods have colonized most of Three Mile Creek, down to ...