Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx aruanus, known as the Australian trumpet and regarded as the largest living sea ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...

Next time you’re scanning the shoreline, you might just spot one of the ocean’s most overlooked treasures: ivory tusk shells.

Researchers have discovered a new species of bright-yellow "margarita" snail hiding in plain sight on a coral reef in the Florida Keys. The tiny invertebrate, which lacks a traditional snail shell, ...

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Part I. A Backaground. What is a mollusc? ; What is a snail? -- Part II. Primitive Sea Snails. Patellogastropoda : limpets ; Vetigastropoda : brush snails ; Neritimorpha : nerites -- Part III.