Some of these invasive garden snails spread serious diseases, while others cause severe damage to fruits and other crops, so ...

Snails have over 1,000 microscopic teeth. Some eat leaves, but different snails eat many different things, including other snails. Photo by Jennifer Schlick Of all the flora and fauna in the region, ...

Since 1990, the St. Louis Zoo has played an instrumental role in bringing Tahitian snails back from the brink of extinction. Few species that have gone completely extinct have been successfully ...

We know whether the endangered Everglade snail kite becomes more or less so every few hours. At least we do at Lake Tohopekaliga. A research team is always counting. They use GPS trackers, nest ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

The Morro shoulderband snail has been upgraded to threatened from endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The snail is only found in an area around Los Osos and Morro Bay. Courtesy of the ...

Inspired by a small and slow snail, scientists have developed a robot protype that may one day scoop up microplastics from the surfaces of oceans, seas and lakes. Inspired by a small and slow snail, ...