The expression "snail mail" is often used to describe the delays to the daily post but it seems one animal lover took the phrase a little too literally. Staff at an aquarium opened a padded envelope ...

Your typical garden snail (Cornu aspersum) helps keep the local ecosystem healthy by feeding on decaying matter, but it can ...

An apple snail sounds like a benign creature, almost cute. But names can be deceiving. This latest invasive species to arrive in Louisiana poses a threat to aquatic vegetation and consequently to fish ...

This snail might be small but conservation efforts to save it have had a massive impact. The Partula tohiveana is a species of mollusc that became extinct in the wild but thanks to the hard work of ...

Scientists have discovered two new snail species the size of a grain of sand—the tiniest known land snails on Earth. “It's amazing how small they are—we wouldn’t have expected that,” says Adrienne ...