It was huge. Its light brown shell stood taller than the tip of my shoe. Its yellowish-green body stretched about an inch ...

‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Britons have been urged to "make friends" with slugs and snails as only a "small fraction" cause havoc for gardeners. The molluscs are regularly thought to be among the most frustrating species of ...

For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...

An endangered species of snail saved from extinction by a breeding programme has been released into the wild. More than 11,000 greater Bermuda land snails, bred at a British zoo, have been given a new ...

A land snail that can glow constantly is the “International Mollusc of the Year 2024”! The “living glow stick” Phuphania crossei received the most votes in the online public vote. The snail made it to ...

It could almost be the punchline to a joke - but works on a major trunk road to turn it into a dual carriageway really are being held up by a slow-moving report on snails. Councillors on Norfolk ...

Famed for keeping vampires at bay, garlic has been found to be equally unpopular with slugs and snails, scientists revealed yesterday. The pungent plant which was worshipped by the Egyptians, could ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

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