Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum ...

Frank, who wished to keep his last name private, picked up the shell-looking item and admired it. He thought about taking it home as a souvenir for his first trip to a coral reef, but decided against ...

A snorkeler had a dangerously close call after picking up a stunning seashell, unaware that it was potentially home to one of ...

If we ignore the fact that invertebrates don’t have teeth, then the winner in this category would go to snails and slugs, which have radula — basically a kind of mat covered with tooth-like hooks for ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...

A Reddit user has discovered how 'lucky to be alive' they are after sharing an underwater photograph of them holding a shell ...

Like other land slugs and snails, banana slugs have a radula, which is rather like a tongue equipped with rows of tiny teeth, and four tentacles. The larger pair is on top of the head and serves as ...

"Not garbage! Not an alien!" the Seaside Aquarium posted on Facebook recently. "It's a giant marine snail egg casing!" ...

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