Spread by parasitic worms that can infect via a splash of water, schistosomiasis causes debilitating symptoms. It hits kids ...

Nature Created These Animal Patterns and They Look Almost Too Perfect to Believe ...

Field work in a remote part of the city's Northside is unearthing everyday items that people left thousands of years ago.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the remains of enormous snail shells at a 225,000-year-old archaeological site in southern Africa. What makes this find truly remarkable is ...

Guinness World Records recognises Gee Geronimo, a giant African land snail measured at 27.3 centimetres in 1978 in West Sussex, as the largest recorded terrestrial snail. However, marine species such ...

Among terrestrial species, that title would go to one of several closely related species of giant African land snail. According to Guinness World Records, the record holder, with a shell measured in ...

A tiny Bermudan snail once threatened by pesticides, habitat loss and the cannibalistic "wolf snail" has been saved from the edge of extinction after six colonies of the re-wilded molluscs were found ...

The Greater Bermuda snails which are part of the breeding programme at Chester Zoo A minuscule snail once thought to have disappeared has been saved from the edge of extinction, a British zoo has said ...

If you want a quiet but brutally clear signal of how badly biodiversity is unraveling on islands, look at land snails. A major new review led by Robert Cowie at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa ...

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author Robert Cowie of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and ...

When you grow up in Micronesia, you can sometimes feel a bit small and overlooked compared to the rest of the world. After all, “Micro,” meaning “small,” is literally in our name. But these islands ...