“Not garbage! Not an alien!” the Seaside Aquarium posted on Facebook recently. “It’s a giant marine snail egg casing!” Fully grown, the Lewis’ moon snail can grow up to 5.5 inches. The Washington ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

Snails have particularly rough tongues, and if you place one in your hand, slime to skin, you may just feel the scratch of the radula. Particularly large snails, such as the giant African land snail, ...