There is a remarkable snail with breathtakingly beautiful shells that can only be found in Cuba. It is not native to any other Caribbean island. Sadly, their beautiful shells make the snail highly ...

DNA analysis by Queensland Museum scientists has unearthed the true identity of 15 species of land snails including four new-to-science species with one named in honor of Queensland wildlife warrior ...

A genetic spin doctor sets snail shells to swirl clockwise, new research confirms. And the twist in this story comes at the beginning — when snail embryos are just single cells. Working at the Tokyo ...

Ned, a pale-bodied snail crawls across a leaf in a small town in the Waiararapa, New Zealand, on Aug. 22, 2025. (Giselle Clarkson via AP) I knew that there were right-eyed and left-eyed flounder, but ...

A new taxonomic revision describes three new species of blind, unpigmented groundwater snails from the Edwards-Trinity ...

Two tree-snail species change color in the rain to blend with wet bark (left). Water enters microscopic shell pores to reveal a dark layer underneath (right) — a power-free trick inspiring future ...