Researchers also propose a new method to classify snails by sorting them into similar groups based on overall shell shape, shell surface texture, and the arrangement of apertural barriers.

In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now, footage of the ...

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 ...

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate—so some snails ...

A tiny snail was named Anauchen picasso, after the blocky whorls on the shell reminded researchers ... More of Picasso's art. How do you name a snail? That’s a question that several mollusk ...

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell. The species, measuring only 3 ...

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 ...

The Mount Augustus snail "only needs to peek out of its shell to do the business," she said. The long-lived snails can grow to the size of a golf ball and their eggs can take more than a year to ...