The goal was to create a sea snail-shaped sculpture on a nature reserve. But locals saw something entirely different.

The shell measures 31cm in its longest dimension, and 18cm at its widest. It was once home to a living organism, of course; most likely a species of cold-water Atlantic sea snail called Charonia ...

Corrosive ocean waters are causing the shells of some marine creatures to dissolve. The shells of marine snails – known as pteropods – living in the seas around Antarctica are being dissolved ...

Pteropods: Seawaters are already corrosive enough in some areas to erode the shells of these small sea “butterflies.” Pteropods are tiny snails that are found throughout the oceans and are an ...