Researchers have embarked on a mission to save what some consider to be the world's most beautiful snails, and also unlock their biological secrets. Endangered Polymita tree snails, which are ...

To protect snails, avoid picking them up by their shells. Photo: Getty Images They slowly crawl through flower beds, across sidewalks and streets—and it’s not uncommon for people to want to help the ...

Some of the world’s most colourful snails, found only in Eastern Cuba, are close disappearing. Scientist from Cuba and the United Kingdom has started a new project to help save them. Recently, ...

Whether in the garden, the forest, or on the sidewalk–many want to help the defenseless mollusks, such as when they risk being run over on the asphalt. Most would probably just pick up the snail by ...

They are colourful and intriguing but these little blighters are among the most venomous creatures on Earth BEACHGOERS are being urged not to pick up a certain type of shell as its venom can cause ...

UK scientists are working to save one of the world's most beautiful snails which is at risk of extinction due to the popularity of their striking shells. The snails, known as Polymita, are endemic to ...

In some parts of the world, everyone knows it’s good luck to insult a baby. In others, elves are a fact of life and city planning. And up and down the East Coast, beachgoers swear that a little music ...

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, ...

The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail is officially extinct, but researchers have ‘high hopes’ that translocation will allow the population to thrive ...