A conservation group is taking the federal government to court over what it says is a failure to protect habitat critical to ...
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the National Marine Fisheries Service today for failing to designate critical habitat in Florida and other areas for the threatened queen conch. This iconic ...
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) sued NOAA Fisheries over inadequate queen conch protection, noting the agency has ...
The rescue mission began with a splash. Flippered and masked snorkelers rolled off a boat anchored near Marathon and into chest-high water. It didn’t take long to spot the target. “This is what we’re ...
Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...
A new study published in Conservation Biology examines the behavior and distribution of queen conch (Aliger gigas) to guide conservation management for the threatened sea snail. The research, which ...
A hopping queen conch can be a sight to behold on the sea floor: its outer shell disguised by green algae, looking more like a rock than the exuberant prized pink queen, suddenly hurdling itself ...
A researcher holds a juvenile queen conch. Adults can reach up to 12 inches in length. Jennifer Doerr, NOAA SEFSC Galveston via NOAA In the turquoise waters of the Florida Keys, a team of scientists ...
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