One such animal is the humble snail. Although it may be thought of as a simple and sluggish creature, certain types of snails ...

Estivation is a trick used by some animals to get through dry spells. It is like hibernation, but is in the summer. Read more here.

A rare Hawaiian tree snail returns to the forest after decades of extinction in the wild, marking a key conservation milestone.

Animals, like humans, excel at some tasks but not others. Researchers used pond snails to investigate learning and memory. They found that if an individual is good at forming memories about food they ...

Snails are awesome little creatures. They’re like slugs, but they have a protective shell that they can retract into when they feel threatened. The shell is essentially the snail’s protective home, ...

While people and many animals might look pretty symmetrical on the outside, inside our bodies we are all fundamentally asymmetric. For example, the human heart is found to the left of center. Snails ...

Thousands of critically endangered snails have been released into the wild after being rescued from the edge of extinction, with a little help from a British zoo. The greater Bermuda land snail was ...