We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...

Rawls held and shook the shell in her video captioned, “She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s about to pick up the world’s deadliest shell that leads to full paralysis in minutes.” Rawls wrote, “ Last ...

Scientists uncover rare parasitic snails living inside sea cucumbers in Japan—offering new insights into unusual animal relationships.

"I'm grateful for whatever reason the snail did not sting me and to have this second chance," Beckylee Rawls told Newsweek ...

Looking up the shell soon after, she discovered the pretty thing was a marbled cone and that the snail living inside had a venomous sting, capable of killing an adult human. Rawls soon took to social ...

She held it for about 30 seconds before noticing something inside: a live cone snail. Taken aback, Rawls replaced the shell in the water. She posted a few TikTok videos showing her misstep.

Looking up the shell soon after, she discovered the pretty thing was a marbled cone and that the snail living inside had a venomous sting, capable of killing an adult human.

Snail hibernation, scientifically known as estivation or dormancy, is a fascinating survival mechanism that allows these mollusks to endure unfavorable environmental conditions. Unlike mammals that ...

We built a stunning underground home in the form of a giant snail shell, surrounded by a circular swimming pool. Every curve and layer of this project was designed by hand, merging nature’s ...

Little is known about the reproduction of the shell-bound critters, which can grow so large that New Zealand’s conservation department calls them “giants of the snail world”.

Conservation efforts suffered a drastic setback in 2011, when a faulty temperature gauge froze 800 Mount Augustus snails to death inside their climate-controlled containers.