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

The biologist at the center of Maria Reva’s metafictional “Endling” prefers snails to the company of humans.

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell. The species, measuring only 3 ...

These giant carnivorous land snails, native to a small region, faced near extinction due to habitat destruction. For the first time in 20 years, a captive Mount Augustus snail was caught on video ...

Commonly found in backyard gardens throughout the world, snails live a very interesting life. But how long do snails live, ...

Threatened by coal mining in New Zealand's South Island, a small population of the Mount ... a reproductive act well documented in other land snails but never filmed for this species.

Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to save the critically endangered meat-eating mollusc.

New Zealand is no stranger to unique flora and fauna, and that includes the land snail Powelliphanta augusta ... s Department of Conservation (DOC), a small egg that looks a bit like a hen ...