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 ...

If you thought human birth was seriously twisted, get a load of the Mount Augustus snail from New Zealand. This giant ...

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 ...

The snails lay roughly five eggs annually, which can take longer than a year to hatch, per a news release. Senior science advisor for New Zealand's conservation department, Kath Walker ...

How do snails mate and lay eggs? “Powelliphanta have solved this by having an opening (a genital pore) on the right side of their body just below their head so that the snail only needs to peek ...

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 ...

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.

Apple snails are an invasive species that was first found in Louisiana around a decade ago--known by the bright pink clusters of eggs they leave behind. Wilson says they believe almost all ...

Many snails lay eggs, though some—like the marine species Littorina saxatilis—birth live baby snails, as reported by Live Science’s Pandora Dewan. The P. augusta snail, meanwhile ...

In March 2025, according to the agency, there were 1,884 snails of all ages and 2,195 eggs in captivity. Additionally, conservationists established new colonies in the wild and continuously ...

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

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, ...