But the clusterwink snail is the first discovered to use the shell-flashing trick, which seems to have evolved as a form of self-defense. The snail's glow-in-the-dark-shell trick was noticed by ...

Dimitri Deheyn and Nerida Wilson of Scripps Oceanography (Wilson is now at the Australian Museum in Sydney) studied a species of "clusterwink snail," a small marine snail typically found in tight ...

Two scientists have provided the first details about the mysterious flashes of dazzling bioluminescent light produced by a little-known sea snail. Two scientists at Scripps Institution of ...

Here, we look at some of Australia’s most spectacular sparkling species. The yellow-coated clusterwink (Hinea brasiliana) is able to use its shell like a lampshade, filtering the light given off from ...