It was huge. Its light brown shell stood taller than the tip of my shoe. Its yellowish-green body stretched about an inch ...

Snails can hide in their shells for months or even years, slowing metabolism and sealing in moisture to survive harsh ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail is officially extinct, but researchers have ‘high hopes’ that translocation will allow the population to thrive ...

To save it, they undertook one of the largest captive snail breeding and reintroduction efforts in Australian, and perhaps ...

There is currently a new exotic pet craze in Europe: giant snails. They're all the rage on social media, but experts warn that they're not as funny as they look. "Social networks are full of photos of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Apple snails are popping back up around the state as the weather starts to get warmer, and entomologists say they pose a bigger threat this year. “We did see last year a bit ...

My Grandmother was a very keen gardener – all weathers. Digging, weeding and chucking snails over the fence into the gardens ...

The aptly named cone snail wears a house that resembles a Ben & Jerry’s receptacle, filled not with ice cream but with a squishy mollusk that sports an extendable, trunklike proboscis. The snails are ...

The snails, which were found in luggage at a Texas airport, can grow to be the size of rats and can cause rare forms of meningitis in humans.