But halfway across the world, there's another type of snail that is just as popular. And it's called ốc, or "sea snails." In the streets of Vietnam, people have been eating them for centuries.

Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most ...

Starting when he was a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, he has monitored the evolution of two common species of sea snails living ...

An international team of malacologists discovered a new snail species, Anauchen picasso, in Southeast Asia that exhibits a highly complex and rectangularly angled shell shape, resembling a cubist ...

It's size classes A. picasso as a “microsnail”, and only one of 46 new species of such snails to have been described by the team in a whopping 300-page article (the irony of tiny snails ...

The sight of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured on camera for the first ...

According to the findings, 81% of the hermit crabs on Taiping Island carried turban shells, 13% used other types of sea snail shells, and only 6% relied on giant African land snail shells. None were ...

The sea snail with shell measures a little less than ... it is designated as a near-threatened species on the Environment Ministry’s Red List and listed in the Vulnerable (VU) category by ...