Or more accurately, it was a type of sea mollusk that washed ashore on South Padre Island recently, to the amazement and ...

Charly Triballeau/Getty Images In the latest episode of Gastropod, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley answer a few of the great questions they’ve received from listeners over the years ...

The author wants people to think about the nutritional cost of refrigeration. "Gastropod" co-host Nicola Twilley sat down with ABC News' Trevor Ault to discuss her new book, "Frostbite ...

All snails and their ancestors, the Gastropods, share a common feature. We people with fancy Ph.D.’s in biology call this a synapomorphy, a word derived from the Greek words for “together with”, “away ...

The gastropod has one lung, one foot, and no spine. The slug is native to the dense, moist forest floors of the Pacific Northwest, ranging from Central California to Alaska. One subspecies ...