Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail . . . Run, tailors, run, or she’ll kill you all e’n now. —Old Nursery Rhyme The sluggish snail has turned out to be far more deadly than the ...

This symbiosis is rare in gastropods, even rarer though is a chemoautotrophic snail that broods its larvae in its head-foot (see image below). Anders Warén is a Swedish naturalist at the Royal Museum ...

The awkward stage of adolescence drives some insects to murderous home invasion. When the time comes to shed their skin, certain beetle larvae in Greece scout out a sleeping snail, break into its ...

Hatched in fresh water, the schistosomal larva must invade a snail within about 24 hours or die. After weeks of development and change in the snail, ...

When the time comes to shed their skin, certain beetle larvae in Greece scout out a sleeping snail, break into its shell, eat the victim alive and squat in its home for days.

Biomechanics of how marine snail larvae swim Date: December 19, 2013 Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summary: Equipped with high-speed, high-resolution video, scientists have ...

"Although the number of larvae you would have to ingest to cause illness is unknown, the numbers present in slime may be sufficient, as snails release tens, hundreds or thousands (we found > 4,000 ...