Everyone loves escargots à la Bourguignonne: helix snails (the wild ones are predominantly from Burgundy) with butter, ...

One of the most classic (and prized) snails for escargot is the Helix pomatia, often labeled as Escargots de Bourgogne.

In the end, there could only be one winner – helix aspersa maxima, better known as the edible garden snail. Some seven years later, the university lecturer turned “heliculturist” now ...

It may seem unlikely, but snail mucin – the slime produced by snails – has become a popular ingredient in skin care products. Makers of South Korean cosmetics have helped boost slow ...

The Snail Breeding Institute has been running training programs and carrying out research into the helix snail species for the past 40 years. From nature to gastronomy, science to economics ...

and Helix pomatia (observed by me) are able to do so. Here’s a halfway-educated guess. The motion of the snail is basically a wave travelling down the foot muscle: some parts hold firmly to the ...