A new snail was discovered off the coast of Florida — resembling a bright, citrus-colored species near the home of citrus margaritas. Marine scientists recently discovered a new species off the coast ...

After more than a decade of work to return captive-bred Partula snails to the forests of Moorea, scientists finally found the evidence they had been hoping for. In 2024, scientists evaluating a ...

Jimmy Buffett's music is synonymous with the Florida Keys. His longtime association with the archipelago off the state's southern coast led to a newly discovered, brightly colored snail being named ...

Nine new species of carnivorous land snails have been found in the remote forests of Papua New Guinea, a biodiversity hot spot. A new study describes the species, which are so small that all nine ...

In 1955, wildlife officials in Hawaii released a meat-eating "cannibal" snail to control an invasive pest. But the plan went ...

Deep beneath a limestone plateau in western Georgia, a snail smaller than a grain of rice has been living in total darkness - and scientists just identified it for the first time. The species, named ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month a wooden crate containing 1,000 adult snails and 2,000 juveniles embarked on a 3,000-mile journey from a zoo in the ...

Currently, the Lagocheilus genus of snails contains 106 species that are widespread across much of south east Asia, India, and South China. Of these 106 species, only six are known from mainland India ...

An international team of malacologists discovered a new snail species, Anauchen picasso, in Southeast Asia that exhibits a highly complex and rectangularly angled shell shape, resembling a ...

A tiny snail was recently named after painter Pablo Picasso. It’s one of many species named after celebrities or artists, but some researchers question whether species should be named after people at ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, the ...

A tiny fish once at the center of a controversy over the Endangered Species Act has officially recovered — a rare victory for the conservation movement at a time when so many species are disappearing ...