Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum ...

An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has revealed worms, snails, giant tubeworms and other strange creatures lurking below steamy underwater hot springs.

Sharks? Alligators? Some kind of weird fish? The answer – which is a snail – definitely surprised me. The mammal with the most teeth goes to the giant armadillo, who sports 100, and the ...