The dye is made from sea snail (Hexaplex trunculus ... Moab, Edom, Damascus, Cyprus, etc,” Shalvi told All That’s Interesting. “The site was probably a key economic hub for the Kingdom ...

Researchers have found a type of snail, new to South Florida, that might have arrived as a stowaway on a ship. The sea snail, officially called a “Naria turdus,” is supposed to be in the ...

As climate change warms the shoreline environment, a large sea snail known as the queen conch has been having trouble mating. Now, scientists are relocating these mollusks to cooler waters where ...

Just a few locations along the Levant’s southern coast and in Cyprus show evidence of dye ... along the beach when her dog bit into a sea snail, staining the dog’s mouth an intense purple.

The sea snail, officially called a “Naria turdus,” is supposed to be in the Eastern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. It first appeared in the Caribbean, in Aruba, in 2020.