Last week at 7 a.m., on my only day off, I received a call from Captain Tom Testeverde in Gloucester. His son, Captain Tom Jr., had just brought in the fishing vessel Midnight Sun with some animals ...

With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La ...

These days, the digging isn't so good. The clam harvest in far eastern Maine has dropped sharply in recent years, and clam diggers say one big reason is an onslaught of the carnivorous moon snail. The ...

For a diminutive mollusk, the slipper snail sure has managed to rack up a lot of names.* Among scientists, the creature goes by Crepidula fornicata and has a reputation for invading the phytoplankton ...