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 ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

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

Scientists have analyzed amino acids preserved in snail shells to determine a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden ...

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.

I don’t know what a shell does to a snail to make it lovable,’ says Jon. Slugs actually do have a shell, but it’s internal. Their shell has been reduced so much through evolution that in most species ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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