The fast-breeding invasive pest is raising worries about cleanliness, public health, and the safety of children.

In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about nature’s toughest composites. A snail might seem an unlikely contender for the ...

Few animals look less threatening than a cone snail, a slow-moving mollusk that spends most of its time half-buried in sand ...

The cone snail looks like a slow-moving, harmless shell collector’s prize, but several species carry venom potent enough to ...

For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...

A one-inch Hawaiian snail is dead, and his species is likely gone forever. The New Year's Day death of the small, 14-year-old snail, named George by Hawaiian scientists, is yet another blow to the ...

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