Last April, after a night of heavy rain, I walked outside to weed my backyard. As I ripped fistfuls of sour grass from the low retaining wall that runs alongside my house, hordes of fat snails ...

It’s hard for most people to get psyched about snails. They’re slimy. Their bodies bear a strong resemblance to phlegm. And our encounters with them often involve cursing the damage they do to our ...

The snails come out at dusk... In the same way that you can find the party by heading for the kitchen, the best way to find snails is to look for what they like to eat. Iso Rabins has only just caught ...

A newly named species of Hawaiian caterpillar sneaks up on a resting snail and quickly spins silk strands around it, lashing it to the spot. The caterpillar then reaches into the snail shell’s opening ...

A rare Hawaiian tree snail returns to the forest after decades of extinction in the wild, marking a key conservation milestone.

Lynne Beaty's research team is searching for mysterysnails in Lake Erie at Presque Isle State Park. Invasive species threaten biodiversity and ecosystems across the globe at a price tag of more than ...

Have you recently observed your vegetable and flower seedlings being devoured overnight? Or seen large holes in the leaves of your plants, or irregular edges on some of the leaves that you know aren’t ...