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.

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

The veins snaking around the shaft provide stimulating texture ... inch toy is a shell-like spiral, while the other side has a handle and controls that look a little like a snail head with ...

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.

Their “atypical” shells are pointed spirals with a “ribbed” texture. Like other snails, the new species is hermaphrodite, having both male and female genitalia. Photos show the brown and ...

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 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 ...

Plus, the end of “Memoir of a Snail” redeems its flights into tedium by giving us a reason to have watched them. There’s a story here about being shoved into a shell and choosing to leave it ...

The Boy Who Lived in a Shell, a book of illustrated poems intended for children, is connected by a single narrator, Ivo, who lives in a giant moon snail shell. In today's episode, Himmelman speaks ...

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. Many of the ...