"I'm grateful for whatever reason the snail did not sting me and to have this second chance," Beckylee Rawls told Newsweek ...

Rawls held and shook the shell in her video captioned, “She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s about to pick up the world’s deadliest shell that leads to full paralysis in minutes.” Rawls wrote, “ Last ...

Snails live all over the world, even in the ocean and in freshwater streams, lakes and marshes. They’re known both for their ...

With more than 35,000 snail species, it's no surprise that there is vast diversity within the class Gastropoda. Here are 10 of the most interesting.

The History of the World in Seven Snails. For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature. Melissa Betters. May 29, 2025.

Hawaii's native tree snails, known as the "jewels of the forest," are rapidly disappearing. Some of the most imperiled only live in human care now, safeguarded 24 hours a day.

Snails “see” the world mostly through smell but also taste and touch. And they receive most of this sensory information through the tentacles. These body parts are so critical to their survival, they ...

The previous record holder for the world’s smallest land snail is Acmella nana, discovered in Borneo in 2015, which has similar body dimensions but whose shell has an average mass that’s about ...

Facebook/Snail Racing World Championships Congham. In 1995, the benchmark time of 2 minutes was set by a snail named Archie, who still holds the world record. In 2019, Sammy won, ...

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

In a world first, scientists have filmed a rare carnivorous snail laying an egg from a "genital pore" in its neck. The footage answers long-standing questions about how the mysterious mollusks ...