They slowly crawl through flower beds, across sidewalks and streets–and it’s not uncommon for people to want to help the ...

Though pond snail shells usually curl clockwise, they can also curl the opposite way—with some interesting consequences. For one, mating with their right-handed counterparts is nearly impossible.

It's amazing how much a slug looks like a snail without a shell. In fact, slugs and snails are both members of the gastropod class of the mollusk phylum.

A small snail hitchhikes 6km upstream on the back of a larger snail. It’s a unique sort of parasite that uses its host not as food, an incubator or a home, but as a living taxi.

The reddish shell was clearly a keeper, but it had to be returned to the ocean because there’s no way to evict a snail without killing it, park officials posted.

Evidence suggests that transitions from snails to slugs — or rather, from having a concrete outer shell to a greatly reduced internal one — have happened numerous times in evolution. Such ...

Whether in the garden, the forest, or on the sidewalk–many want to help the defenseless mollusks, such as when they risk being run over on the asphalt. Most would probably just pick up the snail by ...