Science has not exactly been kind to the rough periwinkle. For one, taxonomists keep forgetting the species, known to malacologists as Littorina saxatilis, exists. It’s been “discovered” so many times ...

For a snail crawling around the ocean floor, finding a mate is a bit more difficult than going to a party on a Friday night. Because snails can perceive light but not clear visual images and don't ...

The recent heavy rains in California have been good for the drought. But it’s not just people who are celebrating. Brown garden snails, which originated in the Mediterranean where the climate ...

Pond snails kept in solitary confinement and starved of calcium for more than a week prefer to take the male role during post-liberation sex, researchers from the University of Calgary have found.

One lone shell of the so-called mystery snail washed ashore last summer at Flathead Lake, the likely source being illegal aquarium dumps into the jewel waterbody. The first local evidence of the ...