Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, ...

Divers, underwater submersibles and remotely operated vehicles found 886 marine species over a 16-month period, and they have ...

Not everyone is a fan of snails, but there’s no denying the benefits they bring to a freshwater aquarium. Aquatic snails are fascinating creatures that bring color to a tank and help keep it clean.

Researchers in the University of Iowa's biology department have identified a chemical used in plastics that seems to have ...

In a recent cooperative study, the department partnered with Dr. Tyler Achatz’s parasitology lab at Middle Georgia College, and examined two species of invasive aquatic snails, the apple and ...

The shape of a snail’s teeth can be used to identify its diet. Many aquatic snails have pointed, triangular teeth for scraping algae off rock surfaces. Over time, the teeth and the underlying membrane ...

Additionally, the snails love to feast on native aquatic plant species, which can be harmful to local critters that consume those same plants to survive. Depleting native aquatic plant species can ...

The freshwater snail Helisoma trivolvis (above) has been our focal species for research on inducible defenses. In the presence of water bugs (left), snails allocate resources to shell coiling to avoid ...

These snails survive only in the lower Deschutes River, where they are threatened by water quality and habitat degradation from dams, diversions and agriculture. Remaining populations occur ...

While substantial advances have been made in the control of schistosomiasis, the diversity and complexity of Schistosoma species and their specific fresh-water snail hosts warrants fundamental ...

The Clean Water Act’s major reductions in pollution also contributed to the fish’s recovery. Populations of the darter now swim in several waterways in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.