Giant sea snails - yes, they’re real, and yes, we ate them. In this one-of-a-kind food adventure, we explore a rare delicacy that’s never been captured on film before.

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about ...

The giant sea snails that survived were raised for four years before again being exposed to either high or low-acidity conditions for a further 11 months, with monitoring of their reproductive ...

1 This is precisely why a detailed long-term study of giant sea snails, red abalone, published in the journal Global Change Biology by University of California (at Davis) researcher Dr. Isabelle ...

Measuring 6.5 centimetres, this giant magnolia snail (Bertia cambojiensis) at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire, UK, certainly lives up to its name. Also known as the Vietnamese giant snail ...

Each is topped by a Majorelle-blue canopy shading its display of huîtres (oysters), giant sea snails, cockles and clams, all arranged within borders of fat lemons and small bottles of Tabasco sauce.

Hydrothermal vents shooting out black material are home to two new species of marine snail. Screengrab from ... and Pantagruel,” stories of a giant king and his son. “The word Gargantua ...