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.

The horn snails, he suspects, found their own life rafts: shore birds. Although the group can't prove that the scenario is true, they think it could have gone like this: Nearly 1 million years ago ...

Osamu Miura from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has found that horn snails crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean around 750,000 years ago, while other individuals made the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using genomics to fight deadly parasitic disease Date: May 16, 2017 Source: University of New Mexico Summary: An international team of researchers is now one step closer to eliminating a deadly ...

Two ram's horn snails, Planorbella trivolvis, hang out on underwater vegetation. The snails carry parasitic nematodes that infect catfish. Pearly Shell (Image credit: Bureau of Land Management ...

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 ...