Violet snails may be some of the best surfers around, but how the ocean snails develop their little rafts has been a mystery. Biologists have now figured out that the surfing snails ascended from ...

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.

The violet snail floats on a homemade raft of bubbles. WITH ITS BRILLIANT purple hue and nifty homemade raft of bubbles, the violet snail (Janthina janthina) is as pretty as it is industrious. Found ...