Talented garden designers from across the West Midlands are set to inspire tens of thousands of visitors at BBC Gardeners’ ...

While football fans may notice "Manchester = unusually good at football", any mathematician or math enjoyer will recognize that these win totals spell out the Fibonacci sequence, a sequence of ...

The sequence ... Fibonacci sequences or the golden ratio as some sort of all-encompassing natural law governing phenomena across orders of magnitude, from the spiral shapes of nautilus shells ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because ...

make it look "like a cubist interpretation of other snails with 'normal' shell shapes." The research team just published a 300-page article including the descriptions of 46 new species of ...

Art is everywhere you look in nature, whether it’s in the form of spiraling humpback whale bubble nets or, as a group of researchers studying snail diversity in Southeast Asia recently ...

Q. I was cleaning out my shed and found a big pile of empty snail shells in the corner. No snails or shells anywhere else — just in that corner. What gives? Probably rats. They like to eat ...

According to self-confessed ‘nature nerd’ Bug Woman, we should be tapping snails’ shells to give them time to retract before moving them. On her website she explains: “If you suddenly pick up a snail ...

According to self-confessed ‘nature nerd’ Bug Woman, we should be tapping snails’ shells to give them time to retract before moving them. On her website she explains: “If you suddenly pick ...