Native Hawaiian sea snails eat invasive sponge Saturday, August 29, 2020 12:05 am Hawaiian tiger cowries feeding on the Orange keyhole sponge (Mycale grandis). (Leon Weaver/Special to West Hawaii ...

According to the researchers at Scripps Oceanography’s Pelagic Invertebrate Collection, the snails can eat the by-the-wind sailors, or Velella velella, which have also washed ashore in San Diego ...

It’s not just sea snails that are carnivorous; many species of land snail feed on insects and even other snails. One group, the Powelliphantas, is native to New Zealand and eats mostly earthworms.

Researchers have found a type of snail, new to South Florida, that might have arrived as a stowaway on a ship. The sea snail, officially called a “Naria turdus,” is supposed to be in the ...

The sea snail, officially called a “Naria turdus,” is supposed to be in the Eastern Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. It first appeared in the Caribbean, in Aruba, in 2020.