The white disk visible on the foot of this live Hawaiian turban snail detaches when the snail dies, washing up on the beach as a so-called cat’s eyes. Turban snails were named for their resemblance to ...

SAN PEDRO (CBSLA) — Forty-five people face charges for overharvesting mussels, turban snails, sea urchin and other wildlife from fragile tide pools at White Point Beach in San Pedro, Los Angeles City ...

Black turban snails are small marine snails that make tasty prey for crabs. Failed crab attacks leave scars on a snail’s shell. By analyzing the rate of scarring and the size of the snail when it was ...

Black turban snails escape predation by sea stars by crawling out of tide pools. Experiments at UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory show that the snails lose this escape response as waters become ...

The 'horned turban' is well known to people mainly in Japan, Korea, and China as an edible marine snail. The species of Japan and Korea was known as Turbo cornutus Lightfoot, 1786 (Sazae in Japanese; ...

Scientists compared the scarring of California black turban snail shells with fossilized shells to help understand crab population changes. Credit: Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Docent / CC via Flickr ...

A taste for a tidal mollusk has two Fremont women in trouble. Yanli Li, 43, and Jing Yang, 47, are facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly taking two buckets of black turban snails from the tide ...