An astonished farmer may have cracked it in the art world - after finding one of her brood has created a perfect image of a vase on an egg. Photo…
The sole surviving hatchling of the only loggerhead sea turtle nest found in Spain this year has greeted the world for the first time in a new video from the…
Experts have used a new technique to thaw the 1,300-year-old remains of a child dubbed the "Ice Prince" after they froze them with nitrogen to preserve them. The "Ice Prince"…
The huge, 36-stone leatherback turtle that was rescued in a Spanish port over the weekend has died shortly after being released to sea. The marine animal turned up at the…
This is the moment caring vets treat a huge, 36-stone leatherback turtle - which is listed as critically-endangered - after it became entangled in a fishing net at a Spanish…
German and US researchers have discovered two incredible snails - one of which is smaller than a grain of sand and believed to be the world's tiniest land snail, and…
German customs officers have seized a protected tortoise skeleton along with its shell that was shipped from Switzerland to Germany as a home decoration. The officials at the Donauwoerth Customs…
A spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Benedictine abbey that was once plundered by the Gestapo has received back a long-lost collection of Mollusc shells 80 years after they were stolen from…
Erika Celene Venalonzo Camacho, councillor for the Morena political party (centre-left) in the municipality of Comondu in the north-western Mexican state of Baja California Sur, shared the photo on WhatsApp.…
Israeli archaeologists have found evidence that early humans wore shell necklaces painted with ochre as far back as 120,000 years ago. The discovery, which included several examples of ancient shell…