Snail shells are often colourful and strikingly patterned. This is due to pigments that are produced in special cells of the snail and stored in the shell in varying concentrations. Fossil shells, on ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

Around the islands inside Lake Victoria, Tanzania, two new species of fish are on the hunt for snails. Omar via Unsplash In Lake Victoria, the largest tropical lake in the world, rocky outcrops ...

Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, says Geoffrey Trussell, an evolutionary biologist and professor at ...

In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about nature’s toughest composites. A snail might seem an unlikely contender for the ...

In Lake Victoria, the largest tropical lake in the world, rocky outcrops provide a home for freshwater snails. It’s also where they are hunted. The lake covers land in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in ...