A rare Hawaiian tree snail returns to the forest after decades of extinction in the wild, marking a key conservation milestone.

Animals, like humans, excel at some tasks but not others. Researchers used pond snails to investigate learning and memory. They found that if an individual is good at forming memories about food they ...

While people and many animals might look pretty symmetrical on the outside, inside our bodies we are all fundamentally asymmetric. For example, the human heart is found to the left of center. Snails ...

Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video shows ...

Snails are awesome little creatures. They’re like slugs, but they have a protective shell that they can retract into when they feel threatened. The shell is essentially the snail’s protective home, ...

We all love an afternoon nap, but did you know that for some animals, it is literally a lifesaver? This is a very special type of nap called estivation, and several different types of animals, ...

Snails are hardly the dull creatures they’re often made out to be. They may be slow, but there are species of snails that can thrive in harsh environments, paralyze their prey, and have sex by ...

Called "love darts," these sharp arrows can reduce fertility and cause early death, a new study says. They may look harmless, but the snails snacking on your backyard garden boast a sex organ that ...

Thousands of critically endangered snails have been released into the wild after being rescued from the edge of extinction, with a little help from a British zoo. The greater Bermuda land snail was ...

A sudden snail explosion in the aquarium can quickly become a nightmare for fish keepers. In this case, the tank became filled with dozens of small snails that began multiplying faster than expected.