For someone with a lot of knowledge about wildlife crammed into my head, you would think I’d have no problem coming up with topics for these articles. However, I have to remind myself that not ...

Scientists are hoping to study the genetics of an ultra-rare garden snail are asking the public for its help in finding the lonely mollusc a mate. The snail’s unique qualities make it a one in a ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Wander through your backyard or walk along a stream and it’s likely you’ll see a snail – small, squishy animals with shells on their backs.

The Bowdoin Marine Science Semester launched four years ago with large ambitions for enriching student’s education with research in the field. Since then, molecular ecologist Sarah Kingston — one of ...

It’s snail and slug season. The slimy mollusks are most active when temperatures are mild and rain or irrigation provide ample moisture. They can be bad pests in a garden, but some are good and a few ...

An Alabama snail so rare that for decades it was thought to be extinct has been proposed for federal endangered species protections. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the oblong ...

What’s slow and slimy, carries its home wherever it goes, and is one of the most unwelcome visitors for gardeners and orchardists across nearly all Zones? If your mind conjured up the whorled, ...

SNELLVILLE, Ga. — Darci Rivers-Pankratz is a sensitive species expert with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Oregon-Washington. The week of Feb. 28 to March 4 is Invasive Species Week. "It's not a ...

Both snail and frog embryos derive asymmetry from formin-mediated events occurring inside cells at very early stages of their development. Asymmetry, they argue, is probably an ancient property of ...

Victor Yool collects, cooks, chews and swallows the gooey local garden snail, and he has served hundreds of the slimy pests to terrified dinner guests. I interviewed the amateur escargot chef at ...