An international team of malacologists discovered a new snail species, Anauchen picasso, in Southeast Asia that exhibits a highly complex and rectangularly angled shell shape, resembling a ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because when ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, the ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of a marine creature called a worm-snail (scientifically known as a vermetid) that shoots out a substance much like a web from our popular comic-book superhero ...

McMaster biologists studying the local abundance of a typically uncommon wild native bee have found a clear link between the unusual population spike and the concentration of a non-native snail in the ...

Cuban snail (Polymita picta) world most beautiful land snails from Cuba , its known as "Painted Snails", rare, endangered and protected. Colorful snails, selective focus, copy space© Mark ...

A tiny snail was recently named after painter Pablo Picasso. It’s one of many species named after celebrities or artists, but some researchers question whether species should be named after people at ...

Snails may look slow and sleepy, but evolutionarily the freshwater mollusks in Lake Biwa have been busy. However, despite evidence of morphological and genetic variation, new species divergence long ...

The new species was discovered in a semi-evergreen forest in Maharashtra, India, according to researchers. Bhosale, H. S., Patil, S. R., & Pawar, S. S. (2025). Journal of Conchology Scientists in the ...

A new snail was discovered off the coast of Florida — resembling a bright, citrus-colored species near the home of citrus margaritas. Marine scientists recently discovered a new species off the coast ...