For decades, crystal-clear water bubbling from the ground has driven Florida tourism, via scuba divers, canoeists, boaters and swimmers, but today, many of those springs aren't healthy. Although the ...

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 ...

Did you have an aquarium when you were growing up – or do you have one now? Did you have snails in it? In nature, our rivers, creeks and lakes are filled with freshwater snails … or were until ...

Natural populations often show genetic variation in pathogen resistance, which is paradoxal because natural selection is expected to erode genetic variation in fitness-related traits. Several ...

The leech Glossiphonia complanata does not appear to have substantial impact on snail populations, but this may be due to most studies focusing on adult snails rather than juvenile snails. In this ...

Scientists have discovered how just two neurons in the brain hold the key to explaining how complex behavioral decisions are made. Scientists studied the brain activity of freshwater snails and ...

Seventy people in Beijing have been diagnosed as suffering from Guangzhou Angiostrongylus meningitis, the Beijing Bureau of Health said at a press conference yesterday. A patient suffering from ...