When we hear the word whelk, large, graceful spirals quickly come to mind. But there's another group of whelks, smaller but no less lovely, bearing the whelk name. You can call them basket or dog ...

The Dog Whelk is a very common sea snail found in tide pools on rocky seashores all around the coast of Ireland. It is a meat-eater and feeds on barnacles, mussels and other marine life that it finds ...

You walk along the beach these days and it looks fairly empty compared to the summer; no more crowds, few dogs, even the wrack line is sparse. But here and there are clusters of washed up shells, ...

Professor Richard Fortey looks at the predatory characteristics of the starfish and the dog whelk and the protective adaptations their prey have developed. The starfish use their sticky tube feet to ...

In the course of looking up some other information, I came across an interesting tidbit about whelks. Whelks are predatory snails; there are many species, belonging to several genera, some of which ...

New Zealand's native whelk could be in danger from a new slippery Aussie invader. Auckland Museum research associate Margaret Morley said the Australian dog whelk was first recorded by Niwa scientists ...