The ocean is filled with a ton of eye-catching creatures, and more than a few of the animals that fall under that umbrella can kill you. That includes the ...

Looking up the shell soon after, she discovered the pretty thing was a marbled cone and that the snail living inside had a ...

A woman in Japan unknowingly put her life at risk when she bent over and picked up a shell while exploring tide pools.

"I'm grateful for whatever reason the snail did not sting me and to have this second chance," Beckylee Rawls told Newsweek ...

Stone snail-crushers, like all other Labrochromis found in Lake Victoria, are known as “mouthbrooding care giver (s),” meaning the females of the species hold their eggs in their mouths until they ...

Researchers also propose a new method to classify snails by sorting them into similar groups based on overall shell shape, shell surface texture, and the arrangement of apertural barriers.

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell. The species, measuring only 3 ...

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell. The species, measuring only 3 ...

Little is known about the reproduction of the shell-bound critters, which can grow so large that New Zealand’s conservation department calls them “giants of the snail world”. Ranger Lisa ...

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate -- so some snails ...

Q: I was cleaning out my shed and found a big pile of empty snail shells in the corner. No snails or shells anywhere else — just in that corner. What gives? A: Probably rats. They like to eat ...