Sometimes, when creating a moist, warm growing environment for plants, gardeners are also providing a hospitable home for slugs and snails. It doesn’t seem like these slow-moving creatures could ...

Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically, they ...

The largest land snail is the Achatina achatina, also known as the Giant African Snail. Snails are invertebrates, meaning they have no backbone. Some land snails are carnivorous and feed on other ...

The world’s largest land snail on our planet is the astounding African Giant Snail. The African giant snail, scientifically known as Achatina fulica, is a remarkable gastropod mollusk that hails from ...

Though it's hard to make out exactly what they're eating, Asian openbills are known to feed on snails. A video was uploaded to Facebook, on Feb. 18, by one Chris Ang, of a group of six openbills ...

Ozempic was derived from Gila monsters, a lizard native to the southwestern US; Prialt, used to treat chronic pain in HIV and cancer patients, comes from deadly cone snails; and captopril ...

Memoir of a Snail is the definition of an emotional roller-coaster, weaving between dark and light as we travel through the little ups and colossal downs of a girl called Grace and her twin brother ...

With more than 40,000 species of snails in the world today — including land and sea snails — it is inevitable that they will have diverse appearances. Spread out across the world in all different ...

Despite their ubiquity, animal mucins are largely uncharacterized. Snails produce mucin proteins in their mucous for a wide array of biological functions, including microbial protection, adhesion and ...