Freshwater streams, ponds and lakes across the United States are becoming saltier, and new research from the University of Missouri shows the damage may be greater than scientists once thought.

On islands from Hawaiʻi to the Atlantic, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are disappearing so quickly that ...

Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video shows ...

Researchers found that as many as 80% of island snail species have gone extinct.

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La ...

A decade ago, the only known surviving population of greater Bermuda land snails were discovered in an alleyway in the capital city of Hamilton, where they’d made a home on concrete slabs in the ...

A conservation journal is to release a study on an endemic Bermuda snail once thought to be extinct. A small colony of ...

In the forests of New Zealand's North Island, park rangers have been working for more than a decade to save a threatened population of giant snails. Now, these are not your average garden snails. They ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...