Off the coast of Brazil, a scuba diver captured something remarkable on video: a wrasse fish gripped a mollusk in its mouth, ...

You can grab a copy of Interesting Shells from the Museum's online shop Molluscs are one of the world's most diverse groups of animals, ranging from tiny snails to enormous squid. Molluscs are ...

An animal which eats other animals is called ... Instead, some have soft and slimy bodies, or some have shells, like snails. Some minibeasts have a really thin but super strong layer on the ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

They're also some of the only animals that can breathe with their butts. You see, inside a turtle shell is a very particular respiratory system. Wojakowski: You will see the lungs towards the top ...

Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, Florida.

Quite often after an extinction event a lot of shelled animals shrink because they don't have the resources they need to grow. If there isn't the resource to build their shells, it's a bit of a ...