There is one local snail that I would bet everyone who lives in coastal New England knows and loves: the common periwinkle. What young person hasn’t picked up a periwinkle from the beach and tried to ...

A special kind of small sulfur-rich proteins, the metallothioneins, have an extraordinarily large capability for binding heavy metals. An international team of scientists has now discovered that the ...

There is one local snail that I would bet everyone who lives in coastal New England knows and loves: the common periwinkle. What young person hasn’t picked up a periwinkle from the beach and tried to ...

Researchers have succeeded in nurturing a small snail called periwinkles in the laboratory for the very first time and are hoping that this French delicacy might be the launch pad for a new, Norwegian ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In celebration of the end of summer, my family spent part of Labor Day ...

AN interesting habit of the common periwinkle, Littorina littorea Linnæus, which does not appear to have been recorded by previous writers, is worthy of some attention. On boulder-strewn shores, such ...

Chemical cocktail suppresses periwinkles’ ability to avoid crabs and disrupts food chain Toxins leaching from microplastics leave shellfish at the mercy of predators, research has found. The chemicals ...