It could almost be the punchline to a joke - but works on a major trunk road to turn it into a dual carriageway really are being held up by a slow-moving report on snails. Councillors on Norfolk ...

For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...

An endangered species of snail saved from extinction by a breeding programme has been released into the wild. More than 11,000 greater Bermuda land snails, bred at a British zoo, have been given a new ...

Snails, mussels, squids -- as different as they may look, they do have something in common: they all belong to the phylum Mollusca, also called mollusks. Researchers have now carried out research into ...

Australian trumpet, the world’s largest snail, is found in Australian coastal waters. Learn more about Syrinx aruanus.

Dissection might prove unnecessary when identifying new molluscs after scientists described a previously unknown land snail based on its genitalia, yet without damaging the specimen in the slightest.

Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx ...

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Slimy and often sluggish they may be, but some molluscs deserve credit for their brains – which, it now appears, they managed to evolve independently, four times. The mollusc family includes the most ...

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