Researchers also propose a new method to classify snails by sorting them into similar groups based on overall shell shape, shell surface texture, and the arrangement of apertural barriers.

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate—so some snails ...

make it look "like a cubist interpretation of other snails with 'normal' shell shapes." The research team just published a 300-page article including the descriptions of 46 new species of ...

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 ...

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate – so some snails ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to save the critically endangered meat-eating mollusc.

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While reproducing from the side of the neck may seem odd, it is, in fact, par for the course for snails. That's because they are encased in protective shells that allow them to retreat from ...