Probably rats. They like to eat snails and tend to hang out in a favorite spot to enjoy them. I’ve also found piles of snail shells in some tucked away corners of my garden. They don’t mind climbing ...

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, measuring the thickness and plasticity in samples of tidal snails. The first ...

Shell or not, most snails move slowly ... But is it dangerous? No matter how excited or bewildered the snail looks drinking milk in the video above, this is not a normal food for snails.

Beige- and cream-colored stripes cover the snail’s spiraled shell, which protects the snail from predators and prevents it from drying out. Partula snails went extinct in the wild because of ano ...