The snails are mucus-oozing creatures that emerge at night, drill into clams and other shellfish with sandpaper-like tongues, eat the meat inside and leave behind empty shells.

Collecting seashells at the shore is a favorite summer pastime – but do you know what you’re collecting? “You could find up to 50 different kinds of shells on our region’s beaches,” said Amanda ...

“Canned snails are like eating clam strips instead of clams fresh out of the shell,” Knapp says. “It’s a different texture and flavor — like a chewy piece of canned meat or rubber ...

Before we condemn the moon snail, Seattle Aquarium naturalist Darcie Larson said the moon snail may be vicious predators of clams, but they're an important part of the beach ecosystem of Puget Sound.

Snails belong to the unsegmented, soft-bodied group of animals called mollusks, which also include octopuses, squids, and clams. Further classified, they are a gastropod, a group that includes snails ...

In addition to hiding there, moon snails also hunt for food by burrowing in the sand on the sea floor. Moon snails are predators and eat clams, other snails and may even cannibalize other moon snails.

While Illinois does have the invasive Chinese mystery snail, often considered an apple snail, it also has 75 more mussels, snail and clam species the limpkins can eat.

The clam harvest in far eastern Maine has dropped sharply in recent years, and clam diggers say one big reason is an onslaught of the carnivorous moon snail.The little-known mollusk that drills ...

What Was Eating Clams And Brachiopods 250 Million Years Ago, Before Modern Predators? Date: April 6, 2001 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: Some marine gastropods (snails) dine by drilling holes in ...