Is the vet or snail going viral in this story? We can't tell, but we do know that they both deserve this stardom. An Israeli vet is being praised after she took the time to diligently piece back ...

The world's record for the smallest land snail is broken once again. A minute shell with an average diameter of 0.7 mm was found in Borneo by a team of biologists along with another 47 new species of ...

Shells of worm snails, also known as vermetids, from a Waialua beach. Some people call these mollusks tube snails, but since the reef also hosts abundant species of tube worms, this name is confusing.

Symmetry is a feature of many plants, animals and even some molecules -- like water. But that's not the case with snails and their coiled shells. They are chiral -- asymmetrical in such a way that ...