Extant and ancient cephalopods—including octopuses, squids, extinct ammonites, cuttlefish and nautiluses—have all had to solve the problem of buoyancy, whether they have hard external shells or not.

If slugs are making a meal of your plants, attracting the right garden birds can help keep the slimy little pests in ...

In 1955, wildlife officials in Hawaii released a meat-eating "cannibal" snail to control an invasive pest. But the plan went ...

There are millions of firsts out there. Have you ever thought about who might have been the first person to experience ...

The descriptions of the two new additions to the European snail fauna, named Cochlostoma komarnica and Cochlostoma dobrido, ...

Something strange happens the moment a snail touches a water droplet, and the physics behind it will make you rethink everything you assumed about how these creatures survive.

What can I use to deter and get rid of slugs? Gardeners traditionally use things such as crushed eggshells, sharp sand and soot to repel slugs, but these have limited success. There are also a wide ...

A council has put a stop to a snail race over complaints from animal rights activists. The Electronic Snail Racing Board demonstrations - which encouraged members of the public to find a snail and ...

Moon snails and lion's mane jellyfish are common sights on beaches during the spring and summer. Moon snails are carnivorous mollusks known for drilling holes into the shells of their prey. Lion's ...

Ian Hughes is boosting one of the continent’s most at-risk species with science, his sons and some homemade T-shirts Ian Hughes and his son, Ben, are driving through the hills of north Wales with an ...

Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal habitats without splitting into new species. When she was a graduate student ...