Snails have over 1,000 microscopic teeth. Some eat leaves, but different snails eat many different things, including other snails. Photo by Jennifer Schlick Of all the flora and fauna in the region, ...
Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video shows ...
Cone snails are marine gastropods whose venoms comprise a complex array of bioactive peptides, collectively known as conopeptides, with conotoxins representing a major disulphide‐rich subset. These ...
You might think that snails typically remain in their shells, occasionally slithering their way to a new location, but this Instagram video by @explaining.animals proves otherwise. When faced with a ...
The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail is officially extinct, but researchers have ‘high hopes’ that translocation will allow the population to thrive ...
Potamopyrgus antipodarum, commonly known as the New Zealand mud snail, has emerged as a paradigm for invasive species research. Its global proliferation is underpinned by a suite of opportunistic ...
Researchers at Brandon University are studying if snails may be nature's water-quality filters by stopping contamination ...