Violet snails shells are left behind by animals that survive by eating Portuguese men-of-war. I’ve often found violet snail shells on Hawaii’s windward beaches, and could fit about 10 in my palm. Here ...

A rare purple sea snail (Janthina) washes ashore in San Deigo. Scientists reveal its floating bubble-raft lifestyle, striking violet colour and how ocean currents unexpectedly carried it to the beach.

This snail is happily hanging upside down from what looks like a mirror, but it’s actually the surface of the sea. The violet snail spends its adult life surfing from place to place on a bubble raft.

Oceanographer Anya Stajner was recently enjoying a sunset walk along the La Jolla Shores beach when a vibrant violet pop of color caught her eye in the sand. She got down on her hands and knees and ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---It's "Waterworld" snail style: Ocean-dwelling snails that spend most of their lives floating upside down, attached to rafts of mucus bubbles. Scientists have known about the snails' ...

The ocean is a many splendored thing, and some of its rarer splendors recently washed up on the beaches of San Diego. The Janthina sea snail, a pretty purple little thing, is a rare species that’s ...