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.

While many people picture small garden snails, some species grow to astonishing sizes and can weigh several pounds. One of ...

A single night of spring rain can transform a quiet garden into a slow-moving feast. Leaves that looked flawless yesterday ...

A rare Hawaiian tree snail returns to the forest after decades of extinction in the wild, marking a key conservation milestone.

From a visitor from England who visited Calgary on the way to Juneau, I learned about the Banff Springs snails, which live in thermal springs with temperatures up to just over a hundred degrees ...

Many scientists model biological processes with the study of mice, rats, and even flies, but snails have been especially useful to Dr. Maurine Neiman. She has been a professor of gender, women’s, and ...

For children who are not into climbing, there are nature-based play areas with elevated mounds, rides, slides and balancing ...

This Brooklyn artist is obsessed with snails, and wants you to be, too. In David Colosi’s exhibition Snaileidolia at Open Source Gallery in South Slope, there’s a lot more than what meets the eye, ...