In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...

After almost a century without a sighting, two species of Hawaiian land snails have been spotted at last. According to National Geographic, over half of Hawaiʻi's 759 snail species have gone extinct, ...

A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early Pleistocene, over 1 million years ago, they include a baby snail preserved inside ...

Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only discovered a wild population of Campbell’s keeled glass-snail on Australia’s ...

A new initiative sees conservationists and citizen scientists uniting to protect London’s "charming little" German hairy snail. This rare species, named for the minute hairs covering its shell, ranks ...

(CNN) — From a little garden in New Zealand, comes a lonely snail looking for love. Ned is ying to another mollusc’s yang, but finding a match for him has become a nationwide effort. Other WRAL Top ...

A group of endangered snails have been relocated which could allow progress to continue on a major road scheme. The presence of little whirlpool Ramshorn snails living in ditches surrounding the A47 ...

A humble freshwater snail, the golden apple snail, possesses an extraordinary ability to regrow an entire, functional eye ...