Snails can explore the length of an average British garden in a single night - reaching a top speed of one metre per hour, a new study reveals. Scientists examined the habits of 450 garden snails ...

How do snails drink water? Discover how these creatures use a mix of oral sipping, skin absorption, and physics to stay ...

A new study published in Conservation Biology examines the behavior and distribution of queen conch (Aliger gigas) to guide conservation management for the threatened sea snail. The research, which ...

A mucus-excreting robot with a single large foot can effectively imitate the way snails crawl over surfaces – even steeply inclined ones. “I always say that snails are like Michael Jackson to me. You ...

Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...