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 ...

Are slugs just snails with bad PR? In fact, slugs - nocturnal gastropod molluscs with no shell - form a fascinating and complex group of creatures whose biology is every bit as interesting ...

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.

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 ...

‘I’m always amazed that people hate slugs so much. I don’t know what a shell does to a snail to make it lovable,’ says Jon. Slugs actually do have a shell, but it’s internal. Their shell has been ...