Snail shells are often colourful and strikingly patterned. This is due to pigments that are produced in special cells of the snail and stored in the shell in varying concentrations. Fossil shells, on ...

The snail’s shell diameter averages about 22 to 30 millimeters (.87 to 1.18 inches). Each snail’s shell has a unique combination of stripes and colors, so no two are exactly alike. These snails eat ...

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

They're neither white and gold or black and blue. But in an optical puzzle akin to The Dress, colourful snails are causing scientists at the University of Nottingham to turn to technology to ...

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 ...

They're neither white and gold or black and blue. But in an optical puzzle akin to The Dress, colourful snails are causing scientists turn to technology to definitively decide whether some snails' ...

New research looks at the swimming and sinking kinematics of nine species of warm water pteropods (sea snails) to shed light on their ecology, predator-prey interactions, and vertical distributions.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it ...