A snail is an equally comforting and discomfiting creature. Its ornamental shell is both a home and armor. Its glacial pace, often accompanied by a viscous sludge it leaves behind, make it a messy if ...

From a little garden in New Zealand, comes a lonely snail looking for love. Ned is ying to another mollusc’s yang, but finding a match for him has become a nationwide effort. That is because Ned’s ...

The appearance of the snails caused the state’s agriculture department to place parts of the second-largest county in Florida in quarantine, making it illegal to move the animals. By Rebecca Carballo ...

In the vastness of the second-deepest lake in the United States, a tiny snail is posing a threat of “concerning” proportions. The invasive New Zealand mud snail has been discovered in Lake Tahoe. It’s ...

A robotic snail can slither over surfaces and spontaneously fix itself when damaged, thanks to one of its main components: a self-healing, electrically conducting hydrogel 1. Yongyi Zhao and her ...

A South Florida county was put under quarantine on Tuesday after an infestation of the invasive giant African land snail was identified in the hopes of eradicating the dangerous mollusk, which can ...