The last place one expects to find a quote from existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is in a stop-motion animation following the adventures of a young snail-obsessed girl. However, Adam Elliot’s ...

Tracing back through the wealth of genetic information revealed that live-bearing young in marine snails emerged gradually over the last 100,000 years as a series of mutations accumulated.

According to The Guardian, other snails mate or lay eggs similarly, with some species even birthing live young. "It extends its penis out of this pore and into its mate's pore, and its mate does ...

Better to lose your foot than your life, at least if you're a snail. In a move reminiscent of certain lizards that can voluntarily detach their tails, young Satsuma caliginosa snails self-amputate ...

which are known to feed on the young snails. Instead, they have begun careful spraying with insecticide (granules of metaldehyde mixed with tricalcium arsenide). So far, the chemical warfare seems ...

Robert Fletcher, the director of a snail kite monitoring program in Florida, holds a young snail kite that is ready to fledge from its nest. (Robert Fletcher/University of Florida) Fletcher and ...

a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love of romance novels. At a young age, when she’s separated from her twin brother, she falls into a spiral of ...

Something going “THUD!” in the night has turned the once-ordinary snail protagonist of this picture book into a vampire—he ...