Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...

British Snails: a Guide to the Non-Marine Gastropoda of Great Britain and Ireland, Pliocene to Recent. By A. E. Ellis. Pp. 275 + 14 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University ...

wiping out marine snail populations. But why would anyone care about the fate of a bunch of snails on a three-square-meter rock in the open sea? As it turns out, this event would open up the ...

But there are snails that live in the water, too, including marine snails in the tropical oceans and freshwater snails found ...

The scientists gave mild electric shocks to the tails of a species of marine snail called Aplysia californica. After these shocks were administered, the snails' defensive withdrawal reflex - where ...

The shells of marine snails – known as pteropods – living in the seas around Antarctica are being dissolved by ocean acidification according to a new study published this week in the journal ...

Cone snails are a group of around 1,000 species of venomous, predatory marine snails that live mostly in shallow, tropical ...