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 ...

Poor in oxygen and sometimes flooded with fresh water, they can wreak havoc with the bodies of salt-water snails, for instance. But the California horn shell took an evolutionary gamble ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...