Horn shells acquired several adaptations to succeed where other marine snails fear to tread. They eat detritus, the jumbled bits of organic material stuck in the mud.

A new study suggests that two species of marine snails may have traveled between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans—all in the belly of a bird. The two species are known as horn snails, and both ...

Scientists have discovered a caste of genetically identical "warrior worms" -- members of a parasitic fluke species that invades the California horn snail. Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have ...

a tropical Ram's Horn snail. "Sequencing and characterizing the genome of this snail has given us a lot of information into its biology," said Adema, who is also part of UNM's Center for ...

The Pacific and Atlantic horn snails were once the same species, until a land bridge blocked their path between oceans. But genetics suggest these snails still interbred long after they were cut ...

These problems seem insurmountable and yet snails have made the journey. Osamu Miura from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has found that horn snails crossed from the Pacific to the ...

jehennei. These snails live their lives upside-down, floating on a raft of mucus bubbles. Researchers believe the bubble rafts evolved from floating egg masses. Two ram's horn snails, Planorbella ...

This disco light of a snail may look like he's having a good time, but sadly he's living his worst nightmare -- having his body hijacked by an insidious parasite.

The magnificent ramshorn is an herbivorous air-breathing snail with a coiled shell in the shape of a ram’s horn. Endemic to the Cape Fear River watershed of coastal North Carolina, the snails depend ...

The lesser whirlpool ram's-horn snail, which is rarely more than 5mm across, is restricted to a few locations in Norfolk, Suffolk and Sussex. The pool frog nearly died out in the 1990s and lives ...