This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

Researchers have decoded for the first time the genome of Scaly-foot Snail, a rare snail inhabited in what scientists called 'the origin of life'- deep-sea hydrothermal vents characterized with ...

Six new species of unique land snails whose shells are covered with what look like scales have been described from the biodiversity hotspot of Malaysian Borneo by scientists Mohd Zacaery Khalik, ...

Despite an extreme environment characterized by high pressure, high temperature, strong acidity and low oxygen level which resembles living condition in pre-historic time, hydrothermal vents harbor a ...

The first deep-sea animal has been listed as 'endangered' due to mining - and it likely will not be the last. The snail is also armored with an iron-clad shell - literally. Scientists believe the ...

Researchers have found six new species of unique land snails whose shells are covered with what look like scales. The snails were discovered by a Malaysian-Dutch team of scientists, thanks to a set of ...