The snail’s shell diameter averages about 22 to 30 millimeters (.87 to 1.18 inches). Each snail’s shell has a unique combination of stripes and colors, so no two are exactly alike. These snails eat ...

Researchers have embarked on a mission to save what some consider to be the world's most beautiful snails, and also unlock their biological secrets. Endangered Polymita tree snails, which are ...

These snails are certainly more colourful than the ones we tend to see in our gardens in the UK, but it's their beauty that has put them at risk of extinction. The Polymita tree snail is endemic to ...

The Geographer Cone Snail, a beautiful but deadly ocean predator, uses a potent neurotoxic venom delivered via a harpoon-like tooth to paralyze prey instantly. While its sting can be fatal to humans, ...

An expedition in the deepest cave system in Croatia, Lukina Jama–Trojama, discovered a beautiful new species of a tiny translucent snail. The newly discovered species belongs to the evolutionary ...

A team of British and Cuban scientists has embarked on a mission to save several species of snail whose unique beauty has threatened their very existence. Polymita snails, native only to the forests ...

As if drowning weren't enough, there are so many ways the ocean will end your life. Add to the lethal list of box jelly fish, blue ringed octopus, fugu and the always popular great white shark, the ...

They look like ethereal little beings from another planet, but they’re are actually newly discovered species of snail. And unfortunately, some of them are already going extinct. A team of biologists ...