Pity the male of the marine whelk, Solenosteira macrospira. He does all the work of raising the young, from egg-laying to hatching — even though few of the baby snails are his own. The surprising new ...

A man is not a mollusk, and many men probably think that's a good thing. And it's not just because a mollusk is a squishy invertebrate with a shell. It's also because for at least one species of ...

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Explore the unique world of male care in marine snails, where males endure nurturing eggs that may not even be theirs. If you can't find the snail in the photo above, it's because he's loaded down ...

In the animal world, stay-at-home dads are rare, and step-dads are even rarer. But scientists have found one species of marine snail where the males care for bunches of offspring fathered mostly by ...

Fed up with attention they don't need, some female snails have learned to smell like guys. Unlike other species of periwinkle snail, Littorina saxatilis ladies can't be identified from chemical cues ...