There is a remarkable snail with breathtakingly beautiful shells that can only be found in Cuba. It is not native to any ...

In the southern hills of the Mexico state of Coahuila, water bubbles from below the surface to create crystal clear pools ...

A snail's shell that protects it from attacks underwater could provide clues for designing improved body armor to guard human soldiers, a new study suggests.

Tiny snails found on Australia’s eastern coast can flicker their spiral shells like dim, blue-green light bulbs. Some snails excrete bioluminescent trails of snot or blink their muscly foot to ...

The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology substitute snail shells for limestone, revealing their utility in making building ...

Snail shells coil in response to a lopsided protein gradient across their shell mantles, finds new research. In contrast the shell mantle of limpets, whose shells do not coil, have a symmetrical ...

Snail Shells Add a New Twist to the Mystery of Animal Asymmetries. After more than a century of searching, scientists have discovered a gene in snails that may control asymmetries inside many animals.

Thanks to tiny computers mounted on the backs of snail shells in Tahiti, scientists have discovered how one species survived extinction while others fell prey to an invasive carnivorous snail ...

They’re way stronger than your average garden snail shell. Those sturdy curves catch the attention of these grainyhand hermit crabs. But hermit crabs won’t kill the snails to get them.