She found a “cone snail,” a highly venomous species capable of causing anything from paralysis to death. An urban legend even nicknames this mollusk the “cigarette snail.” According to the legend, if ...

This 500-year-old stone box of Inca offerings was found by divers in the Bolivian half of Lake Titicaca. It contains a miniature llama made from mollusc shell and a cylindrical gold foil thought to be ...