A special kind of small sulfur-rich proteins, the metallothioneins, have an extraordinarily large capability for binding heavy metals. An international team of scientists has now discovered that the ...

There is one local snail that I would bet everyone who lives in coastal New England knows and loves: the common periwinkle. What young person hasn’t picked up a periwinkle from the beach and tried to ...

There is one local snail that I would bet everyone who lives in coastal New England knows and loves: the common periwinkle. What young person hasn’t picked up a periwinkle from the beach and tried to ...

Chemical cocktail suppresses periwinkles’ ability to avoid crabs and disrupts food chain Toxins leaching from microplastics leave shellfish at the mercy of predators, research has found. The chemicals ...

AN interesting habit of the common periwinkle, Littorina littorea Linnæus, which does not appear to have been recorded by previous writers, is worthy of some attention. On boulder-strewn shores, such ...