Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail . . . Run, tailors, run, or she’ll kill you all e’n now. —Old Nursery Rhyme The sluggish snail has turned out to be far more deadly than the anonymous poet ...

University of Queensland researchers have reared deadly cone snails in a laboratory aquarium for the first time, uncovering a potential treasure trove of new venoms for drug development. Professor ...

It might be a new year, but for North Carolina's environment there are many of the same problems from species that shouldn't be here or have been drawn to the Tar Heel State by our warming weather ...

An invasive species of snails known to be deadly to humans and disastrous to marine life has slithered its way into North Carolina. The toxic Apple Snails were discovered last month in multiple ...

The natural world is always fascinating, with millions of unique species for us to explore and research. But now and again, nature presents us with something so strange that it is, frankly, bizarre.

A quarantine zone has popped up in South Florida thanks not to new diseases, but rather something seemingly much more innocuous – and slimy. The quarantine enacted Tuesday concerns stopping the spread ...

A Terrestrial snail sucker, a snake common to South America, has been caught feasting on an invasive bean slug in a car park in Mexico. This finding could lead to new methods of control for this ...

Many marine invertebrates, like sand dollars and sea snails, spend their larval stage floating through the sea. Eventually, they detect chemical signals indicating that it’s time to metamorphose. Some ...

The disease is as old as the pharaohs -telltale traces remain in mummies 3,000 years old—but to the dismay of public health doctors, it is more prevalent than ever. Schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, ...

Adult Conus magus cone snail eating fish. Credit: Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland University of Queensland researchers have reared deadly cone snails in a laboratory ...