All Articles Tagged As: snails

Prehistoric aesthetics explains snail biogeography puzzle (9/19/2007)

The answer to a mystery that long has puzzled biologists may lie in prehistoric Polynesians' penchant for pretty white shells. ...> Full Article

Genetic Study of Snail Migration May be Linked To Human Migration (5/17/2007)

Researchers from The University of Nottingham want the public to get involved in a project which could tell us how our ancestors came to Britain and Ireland. Experts from the School of Biology need people living in Ireland and Scotland to get involved in collecting snails. ...> Full Article

What Is Dollo's Law, And How Are Sea Snails Breaking It? (4/27/2007)

Lizards gave rise to legless snakes. Cave fishes don't have eyeballs. In evolution, complicated structures often get lost. Dollo's Law states that complicated structures can't be re-evolved because the genes that code for them were lost or have mutated. A group of sea snails breaks Dollo's law, Rachel Collin, Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and colleagues from two Chilean universities announce in the April, 2007, Biological Bulletin. ...> Full Article