However, it is typically the animals surrounding these snails that should be retreating. Hidden within that hard shell is a siphon, which appears harmless. Up close, it’s a muscular tube serving ...

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 ...

A cone snail has a cone-shaped shell, a fleshy foot, a head, and tentacles. Cone snails live in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean and Red Seas, and along the coast of Florida.

The lone shell led to the ... were restored to close to how they were before the species’ decline, the team gave the thumbs up to Garcia to start shipping the snails back to the islands.

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.

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 ... which they slurp up "like we ...