Far from being an abstract, albeit fascinating, scientific curiosity, I am convinced that attending to snail biogeography and evolution is ... sealed up inside their shells in this way, it seems ...

Starting when he was a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, he has monitored the evolution of two common species of sea snails living ...

Wave snails are typically small, and have a thin shell with specific colors and ... The snails' access to a large gene pool drove this rapid evolution." The team examined three aspects over ...

Along with documenting a vivid example of “rapid evolution,” the ... surrounding environment, the snails will display different traits including size, shell shape, shell color, and behavior.

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.

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 ...

Snails are especially prone to this since they must extend their moist bodies outside their shells to move around, Örstan says. The risk of drying out “may limit the evolution of the smallest ...

Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. The candy cane snail (Liguus ...

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

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.