A seed snail is just that, a spiral wrapped strip of the thin polywrap that often comes in our mail order packages and filled with soil with the seeds planted in the soil spiral. The pieces of ...

Since most marine snails have shells that spiral to the right (with the exception of a couple of left-spiraling species), hermit crabs evolved a right-handed corkscrew body to fit better inside them.

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 ...

To hear a sound, auditory signals travel through a person’s ear, where they are transformed into vibrations that swirl through fluid in the cochlea, a spiral, snail-like structure in the inner ear.

The slow-moving, spiral-shelled snail can be found leaving a slippery trail through garden leaves, across streams and in ...