A snail is an equally comforting and discomfiting creature. Its ornamental shell is both a home and armor. Its glacial pace, often accompanied by a viscous sludge it leaves behind, make it a messy ...

The species, measuring only 3 millimetres (0.1 in) in size, has been named Anauchen picasso owing to the rectangularly angled whorls on its shell. Their distribution extends further westwards ...

A cone snail has a cone-shaped shell, a fleshy foot, a head, and tentacles. Cone snails live in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean and Red Seas, and along the coast of Florida.

"The snail only needs to peek out of its shell to do the business," Walker said. While most snails lay eggs, some reproduce through live birth — also via their neck. Last July, the Campbell ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to save the critically endangered meat-eating mollusk. Threatened by coal ...

Plus, the end of “Memoir of a Snail” redeems its flights into tedium by giving us a reason to have watched them. There’s a story here about being shoved into a shell and choosing to leave it ...

The Mount Augustus snail "only needs to peek out of its shell to do the business," she said. The long-lived snails can grow to the size of a golf ball and their eggs can take more than a year to ...