Probably rats. They like to eat snails and tend to hang out in a favorite spot to enjoy them. I’ve also found piles of snail ...

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

Some shells, particularly land snails, are now protected by CITES regulations, which seek to ensure that the trade of a species doesn't threaten its survival – although it is possible that some ...

The shell is relatively small but morphologically, it is a distinct land snail,” said Khandekar. “As a co-author, I view this ...

Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, ...

In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, measuring the thickness and plasticity in samples of tidal snails. The first ...

Meanwhile, the local media began calling me ‘The Snail Whisperer’! ‘That’s an appropriate name,’ Lorelle laughed. Lorelle and ...

the forests of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi were so replete with endemic land snails that the wind rustling through the trees would ...

As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically, they have a spiral-shaped shell into which they retract ...