For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

P. augusta is also called the Mount Augustus snail, named after the only known habitat on New Zealand’s South Island where they were once natively found. About 20 years ago, a coal mining operation in ...

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

Powelliphanta have solved this by having an opening (a genital pore) on the right side of their body just below their head so that the snail only needs to peek out of its shell to do the business ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to save the critically endangered meat-eating mollusk. Threatened by coal ...

A ranger who has been caring for the snails for the last 12 years said it's the first time she's seen one lay an egg.

The Powelliphanta augusta snail ... in their shells. According to The Guardian, other snails mate or lay eggs similarly, with some species even birthing live young. "It extends its penis out ...

The species, measuring only 3 millimetres (0.1 in) in size, has been named Anauchen picasso owing to the rectangularly angled whorls on its shell ... the shell sizes of these snails are less ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail ... in a hard shell. The invertebrate uses a genital pore on the right side of its body ...

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 ...