This tiny snail is not much bigger than a pencil eraser. Its body—most of it a muscular foot—is bumpy and brown, and its antenna-like eyes are almost translucent. A gland in the snail’s foot ...

Researchers in Cuba and the UK are working together to reveal the biological secrets of the beautiful but endangered Polymita ...

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Rosy wolf snails are the good guys of the garden because they eat other snails, which tend to strip the leaves off vegetable plants.

"The very thing that makes them different and interesting ... is, unfortunately, what's endangering them as well." ...

Unlike humans, apple snails can regrow their peepers if they are injured or amputated. To do this, the snails have developed some unusual tools to alter its genome that could inform future ways for ...

If you want to track a snail, you need a tiny instrumentation package. How do you create an entire data acquisition system, including sensors, memory, data processing and a power supply, small enou… ...

Want to Remember More? This Snail Study Shows 1 Thing Will Help You Retain Information A simple tweak can eliminate some of the interference that makes forming memories a challenge.

You can use this time to hand-pick brown snails that you may have missed. Finally, introduce the decollate snails to your garden, placing them in the same damp shady areas favored by the brown snails.