Nearly six kilometres beneath the surface of the Pacific, on a patch of bare volcanic rock, researchers found a mollusk that ...

Partula snails are small, tree-dwelling native to islands in French Polynesia. In Polynesian cultural heritage, each unique ...

The fast-breeding invasive pest is raising worries about cleanliness, public health, and the safety of children.

In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about nature’s toughest composites. A snail might seem an unlikely contender for the ...

For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...

A one-inch Hawaiian snail is dead, and his species is likely gone forever. The New Year's Day death of the small, 14-year-old snail, named George by Hawaiian scientists, is yet another blow to the ...

The cone snail looks like a slow-moving, harmless shell collector’s prize, but several species carry venom potent enough to ...

A black vulture in Brazil was caught doing something that left birdwatchers baffled: carefully settling its warm brood patch ...