Plus-size snail, Gee Geronimo, was the largest African land snail ever to be recorded. Measuring 39.3 cm from snout to tail, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records back in December 1978.
What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?
Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research suggests. While the basic eyes of most snails look like small black dots, conch snails known as strombids have eyes ...
A team of Japanese and Thai researchers has found four species of luminous land snails, only the second such discovery after one came to light in 1943. Scientists from Chubu University in Kasugai ...
This land snail species, scientifically called Calybium ... it was explored and confirmed by the British Cave Research Association as the largest cave in the world. Since its discovery, Son ...
All terrestrial slugs evolved from land snails by losing their shells and ... damage to citrus crops in Florida and ...
The Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park currently records 2,954 species of higher plants, belonging to 1,007 genera, 198 families, 63 orders, 12 classes, and six phyla, including 111 species in ...