In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...

After almost a century without a sighting, two species of Hawaiian land snails have been spotted at last. According to National Geographic, over half of Hawaiʻi's 759 snail species have gone extinct, ...

A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early Pleistocene, over 1 million years ago, they include a baby snail preserved inside ...

Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only discovered a wild population of Campbell’s keeled glass-snail on Australia’s ...

A new initiative sees conservationists and citizen scientists uniting to protect London’s "charming little" German hairy snail. This rare species, named for the minute hairs covering its shell, ranks ...

Jeremy, the rare snail with the left-curling shell whose search for a mate kicked off an international quest, has slithered off this mortal coil. But there's one last twist to the story. Reader, ...