Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx aruanus, known as the Australian trumpet and regarded as the largest living sea ...

Early mornings at Puri’s Blue Flag Beach are calm and enchanting. Gentle waves wash over the golden sands as the first rays of sunlight stretch across the horizon. In a recently shared video, tiny sea ...

After nearly a decade of taxonomic puzzle-solving, a team of scientists from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Biological Sciences, Sea Change Project, the University of Tokyo and ...

Guinness World Records recognises Gee Geronimo, a giant African land snail measured at 27.3 centimetres in 1978 in West Sussex, as the largest recorded terrestrial snail. However, marine species such ...

In a groundbreaking achievement for marine science, a team of researchers has unveiled a new genus and species of parasitic sea snail, the result of nearly a decade of rigorous study. The discovery, ...

The name “sea hare” comes from the two tentacles on their heads that resemble a rabbit’s ears. Learn more about this marine mollusk.

This picture puzzle is asking you to find one tiny heart lost in the sea of snails. To add an extra layer of difficulty, you have only 45 seconds to spot it. Do you think you can locate the hidden ...

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago—had gone extinct. While later searches turned up some snails that had ...

A group of critically-endangered snails returned to the wild on Norfolk Island last year are not only surviving, but reproducing. Last year saw Australia’s first large-scale snail translocation, with ...

"It's every conservationist's dream to help save a whole species – and that's exactly what we've done," said Tamas Papp of the Chester Zoo Chester Zoo A rare greater Bermuda snail, once believed to be ...