Explore the magic of the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, revealing their influence in art, nature, music, ...

The African Giant snail has a unique appearance, of its spiral-shaped shell and deep caramel and chocolate-brown stripes. Some even have a creamy-white color that makes them look even more fascinating ...

Smooth-skinned backs grow and harden into textured nautilus shells. Limbs elongate into jiggling ... breaking every law of anatomy you thought you knew. Good luck diagnosing this curse, Doctor ...

New snail species named after "The Lord of the Rings" characters have been found in Brazil. These troglobitic snails, adapted ...

Coming out of your shell is never easy, but “Memoir of a Snail” shows you that there’s no point in hiding from the world — ...

During a release of captive-bred snails in September, researchers discovered wild-born individuals from the Partula tohiveana ...

For the snail that gets darted, it’s not good news; a 2015 study of the land snail species Bradybaena pellucida found that ...

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings.

In 2015, researchers discovered that some species, like Conus geographus, make venoms that contain con-insulin, a toxin that ...

You might think of snails as the little shelled creatures that you find crawling in your garden, or even as a delicacy of ...

Plus, the end of “Memoir of a Snail” redeems its flights into tedium by giving us a reason to have watched them. There’s a story here about being shoved into a shell and choosing to leave it ...