There is a race of shells among us we seldom see and regard even less, yet they do community service for our coastal waters. I speak not of noble nautilus nor lofty conch, but rather the humblest ...

“Thanks to a computer failure, I rediscovered pictures of a full-grown trumpet snail eating a white sea cucumber,” writes Susan Scott. The trumpet snail’s body is as remarkable as its house, having ...

Pretty much all of the natural world delights me. But if I were to create a list of favorite creatures, the garden snail would be near the top. Finding a snail, not only away from the seashore, but in ...

For Jenny Bergeron ’14, summer is passing at a snail’s pace — in a good way. Along with Colin O’Leary ’13 and Alex Hulse ’14, Bergeron is studying snails and their neuropeptides: tiny molecules that ...

With him went an entire species. Formally known as Achatinella apexfulva, the 14-year-old Hawaiian tree snail was the last of its kind on the planet. He had been lonely since shortly after his birth, ...