Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A snail from the Canary island of La Gomera produces its impressive camouflage layer by itself in the process of an unexpectedly complex behavioural pattern. The snail grazes lichen material from the ...

SUSAN SCOTT SUSAN SCOTT PHOTOS A worm snail, left, and tube worm, above. A worm snail feeds by casting from its opening a sticky mucus net that snares passing plankton. Periodically, the snail hauls ...

Berkeley -- Biologists have tracked down genes that control the handedness of snail shells, and they turn out to be similar to the genes used by humans to set up the left and right sides of the body.