Professor John Birch shows his snail shells yesterday. He collected the specimens on the island of Tahiti and neighboring Moorea. Only five species of the snail remain alive in the wild. (JORDAN ...

Cuban snail (Polymita picta) world most beautiful land snails from Cuba , its known as "Painted Snails", rare, endangered and protected. Colorful snails, selective focus, copy space© Mark ...

This little-known Florida museum on Sanibel Island features one of the world’s most impressive shell collections, plus a live ...

This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein. A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

Shells collection, including Garden Snail, Precious Wentletrap, Turbo snails, Turritella snail, Seashells and more. (Credit: Dr. Zachi Evenor / CC BY) Who ever though that a person could learn so much ...

Comparing the mechanics of snail shells and ant mandibles provides clues about why there are shell fragments in ants’ garbage ...