The mystery of the volcano-dwelling snail and its iron shell has been unravelled by scientists after its genome was decoded for the first time. The scaly-foot snail survives in what researchers have ...

Deep-sea creatures are some of the most skilled survivalists in the world. They endure isolation, extreme temperatures, and pure darkness at depths no human has ever visited. These animals adapt and ...

This is the only animal in the world known to incorporate iron into its exoskeleton. It builds its shell out of the stuff, and even its soft, fleshy foot is covered in thick iron plates like a ...

It has always been a mystery why the scaly-foot snail can live in “impossible living conditions” but thanks to scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the genome has ...