A breeding population of Chinese "mystery snails" has surfaced in a Georgia lake, prompting fears that they could spread parasites and damage property, per an advisory by the Georgia Department Of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Three 11-year-old girls spotted several large snails resting on rocks in a stream feeding into ...

Microscope work may have solved the puzzle of Asian snails’ “useless” snorkels. The small Alycaeidae land snails of Asia grow what looks like a tiny breathing tube curling partway along the outside of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X This month the Maryland BioDiversity Project recognized Kaitlin and Kristin Dan and MacKenzie ...

Parasitic flatworms known as agents of food-borne zoonoses were confirmed to use several species of thiarid snails, commonly found in freshwater and brackish environments in southeast Asia, as their ...

Twisted sex allows mirror-image snails to mate face-to-face, research finds Date: November 21, 2017 Source: University of Nottingham Summary: A new study has found that differently-coiled types of ...

New BU research published as the cover story in the international journal Toxins suggests that a common Asian freshwater snail, Sinotaia aeruginosa, could help slow or even prevent cyanobacteria ...

Thailand's Asian openbill storks have no time to feel squeamish about their daily diet. After all, their beaks must move with ...

Plants and animals losing the fight for survival against invading species may go unnoticed by biologists until it's too late, a new study suggests. James Byers and Lloyd Goldwasser of the University ...