Snails that drill through shells, crabs that excavate tunnels and air pockets where little bubbles pop as the waves recede – they all leave holes.

A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past.

Volunteers tidying up woods off Gettford Road in Eustis found more than a dozen gopher tortoise shells with holes apparently drilled into them.

L. fasciculata's shells range from the size of a grain of sand to a sunflower seed, and the researchers were able to recover more than 200 of them with the telltale holes of a perforating predator.

Chilling photos show a blood-stained subway car with bullet holes and spent shell casings strewn about it after Tuesday’s shocking shooting aboard the train.

How to Line a Tart Shell Without Poking Holes in It Sometimes your greatest enemy is at the end of your fingertips.

COURTESY BOB LEINAU Cone snail shell with worm holes. Another borer that really is a worm is the bone-eating snot flower, a gelatinous creature with plume-bearing gills and rootlike tendrils that ...

A walk along a natural seashore reveals the shells of many mollusks that have washed up with the tide. Like the bone in the television series by that name, every shell has a story to tell. And ...

A beachgoer has queried why some shells he finds on the shore have tiny holes seemingly 'drilled' into them - and the truth behind the interesting feature is horrifying.

The drill holes left in fossil shells by hunters such as snails and slugs show marine predators have grown steadily bigger and more powerful over time but stuck to picking off small prey, rather ...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc has just drilled a dry hole in Brazil’s premier offshore region, a sign state-controlled Petrobras may have already grabbed the best oil deposits and left competitors ...

Expert explains what creates the holes Professor Culum Brown, from the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University, said as weird as it might look, these holes in shells are pretty common.