You might expect danger to come with claws or size, but the real threat often comes in small, quiet forms. These animals kill ...

More formally referred to as Clea Helena, Assassin Snails go by their ‘hit-snail ... laying around a dozen eggs at a time. Falling into the shellfish category, clams aren’t there just ...

Nestled within the carefully cultivated landscapes of public gardens lies a secret world teeming with wildlife that often ...

which they can store until they each fertilize the sperm they’ve received to create eggs,” Flanagan explained.The snails take an extraordinary eight years to reach sexual maturity, and once ...

A ranger who has been caring for the snails for the last 12 years said it's the first time she's seen one lay an egg.

Take, for example, a curious little snail species you’ve probably never heard of. It has a truly baffling biological quirk: it lays its eggs through an opening in its neck. Just let that sink in ...

Conservationists have been caring for the snails for two decades, but for the first time have seen how one lays an egg.

Conservation rangers took a video of an endangered, captive snail laying a large egg, revealing insight into the creature’s reproductive process ...

Kath Walker, a DOC senior science advisor, said in the release that the snails lay eggs through their neck because to their hard shell gets in the way of mating anywhere else on their body.

These rare hermaphroditic snails are only found in New Zealand and much of their lives has remained a mystery. But now, we know how they lay their eggs–and it’s through their necks.

Each snail takes eight years to reach sexual maturity, after which it lays about five eggs a year. The egg can take more than a year to hatch. “Some of our captive snails are between 25 and 30 ...