Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum ...

Mollusks are also important prey for a wide variety of animals, from mammals to birds to snakes to fish, and their sensitivity to environmental pollution makes them excellent indicators of overall ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the ...

rodents and habitat loss threatened the snails on Deserta Grande Island, so the mollusks were reintroduced on a neighboring island that’s free of invasive species ...

Both snails were likely to have been accidentally introduced via horticultural shipments. Read more at straitstimes.com.