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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Telescopium telescopium, popularly known as the Horn Snail, are found in plenty in the salt water creeks of the Sunderbans. Past experiments on mice, rabbits and dogs at the Chittaranjan ...