Scientists have analysed amino acids locked in snail shells to establish a new age for the world's oldest complete wooden hunting weapons. The ...

Directly dating fossils from the same layers as the Schöningen spears led researchers to the surprising finding that the ...

The snail’s shell defies the smooth spirals we associate with its kind. Instead, it folds into boxy, angular whorls, a shape ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to ...

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate -- so some snails ...

Senior science advisor for New Zealand's conservation department, Kath Walker, noted in the release that snails have a genital pore on their necks to mate while remaining in their shells.

The sight of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured on camera for the first ...

Little is known about the reproduction of the shell-bound critters, which can grow so large that New Zealand’s conservation department calls them “giants of the snail world”. A conservation ...

The Mount Augustus snail "only needs to peek out of its shell to do the business," she said. The long-lived snails can grow to the size of a golf ball and their eggs can take more than a year to ...