Extreme weather events, such as rainstorms, tropical cyclones, and heatwaves can occur across several days or even a few hours, and cause great damage to ecosystems and human settlements. An extreme ...

George, a 14-year-old Achatinella apexfulva, died Tuesday. Achatinella apexfulva were the first of 750 land snails from Hawaii to be identified by Western science. Their distinct mark is a yellow tip ...

Guinness World Records recognises Gee Geronimo, a giant African land snail measured at 27.3 centimetres in 1978 in West Sussex, as the largest recorded terrestrial snail. However, marine species such ...

It’s been slow work for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as they snap on rubber gloves and rake Earth along the Caloosahatchee. A handful of team members comb the ground in ...

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.

Invasive land snail species can displace native species and harm human health. A recent study by the Leibniz Institute for Biodiversity Change Analysis (LIB) compiles an overview of the exponential ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. The story I'm about to tell became much more interesting once I invited a zoologist into the narrative. Yet, this tale wouldn't have come around if I ...