Snails have a coiled brown, gray, yellow, white, or blue coiled shell. Slugs and snails are found more at night than during ...

Their “atypical” shells are pointed spirals with a “ribbed” texture. Like other snails, the new species ... Photos show the brown and white coloring of the new species.

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.

The black band around the bottom lip of the shell gives the game away despite its most unusual colouring. It is the brown-lipped snail ... It is most likely a white-tailed bumblebee, which ...

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.

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 ...

Elliot also argues that it helps us build constrictive shells around ourselves — like snail shells ... world dominated by varying shades of brown, and populated by 7,000 handmade objects.

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.

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 ...