Snails getting ready for winter are natural carpenters. They construct doors, or maybe you'd call them walls, inside their shells. They do this without hammers, nails or cement.

Unlike land snails that secrete luminescent mucus, the Hinea snail relies on a chemical reaction that occurs deep inside its body beneath the shell, Deheyn’s team found. Sign up for the Live ...

Snail Shells Add a New Twist to the Mystery of Animal Asymmetries After more than a century of searching, scientists have discovered a gene in snails that may control asymmetries inside many animals ...

Snails getting ready for winter are natural carpenters. They construct doors, or maybe you'd call them walls, inside their shells. They do this without hammers, nails or cement. Instead, they use ...

Snail Shells Add a New Twist to the Mystery of Animal Asymmetries. After more than a century of searching, scientists have discovered a gene in snails that may control asymmetries inside many animals ...

"I am going to withdraw from the world," says a snail in Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Snail and the Rosebush. "Nothing that happens there is any concern of mine." In the fall, snails get cold.