Learn about snails with a roundup of snail facts. Discover what snails eat, when they get shells, how long they sleep and how ...

In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, measuring the thickness and plasticity in samples of tidal snails. The first ...

Two common snail species (Nucella lapillus and Littorina obtusata) have evolved in response to a major predator: the invasive ...

‘Although that doesn’t stop me from going out in the middle of the night to try to remove and relocate them ... They use their radula to drill through the other snail’s shell,’ says Jon. These ...

A snorkeler in Egypt's Red Sea had a near escape after encountering one of the most venomous animals on earth.

What is the Partula snail? Also known as the Polynesian tree snail or niho tree snail, the Partula snail (Partula nodosa) is actually one of several snail species of the genus—all of which are ...

"During our regular waterway cleanups by kayak, we come across plastic bottles and aluminium cans containing apple snail ...