Snails aren’t too picky when it comes to their meals. They’ll eat pretty much whatever they can find, from plant matter to animal waste (and, in some cases, even other snails). Like learning about ...

Wander through your backyard or walk along a stream and it’s likely you’ll see a snail – small, squishy animals with shells on their backs. Snails are found in water, whether in salty oceans, rivers ...

Some barnacles are 'morphing' to protect themselves from predatory warm-water sea snails, which are expanding into their territory due to climate change. Some barnacles are 'morphing' to protect ...

Most snails move slow, but these illicit gastropods crossed the Atlantic at hundreds of miles per hour. Customs officials at Detroit Metropolitan Airport recently found six living snails inside a ...

We often mindlessly trample on snails and earthworms because they move so slowly compared to the average human, but there’s a whole world of animals out there that are even slower. These are animals ...

Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically, they ...

There are lots of different kinds and sizes of snails on Earth. Some live in the ocean and are called sea snails. The one I’ve photographed here is a land snail. Can you name an animal that has a foot ...

Long-standing hopes to get the notorious A47 Acle Straight dualled have been handed a major boost - after the success of a scheme to relocate protected snails along the road's route. Campaigners, who ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Wander through your backyard or walk along a stream and it’s likely you’ll see a snail – small, squishy animals with shells on their backs.