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 ...

Our hypothesis predicts that sinistral lineages of snails more frequently emerge in sympatry with the snakes than in allopatry. Furthermore, the effect of snake predation on the emergence of sinistral ...

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 ...

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 ...