A snail’s slimy organs and parts follow suit, developing with a twist that echoes the asymmetrical shell — a fact that inspired a team of researchers to identify that trait’s source.

In order for this to work, each snail’s part must line up with its partner’s relevant regions. They find each other in the wild and all get down to it. Well, all except for Jeremy, who was ...

A snail with a shell spiraling to the right can’t mate readily with a lefty. So, changes in the single gene that controls shell direction have created new snail species, say researchers. MATE ...

Beachgoers in San Diego may have spotted some glistening, purple shells reminiscent of small gemstones in the sand recently.

Researchers in Japan have altered the destiny of a rout of snails by changing the chirality of their shells before birth. By delicately manipulating a batch of developing embryos, the scientists ...

All mollusks build their own shells, whether they live in water or on land. Creatures like snails, clams, oysters and mussels use an organ called a mantle to secrete layers of calcium carbonate ...

Even a snail, the movie eventually reminds us, can only move forward. Memoir of a Snail Rated R for clay nudity, violence and alcoholism, as well as talk of adult matters.

The snails tend to aggregate near where the thermal waters bubble up, so fewer are found downstream. Another snail of this genus lives in the Liard Hot Springs in British Columbia.

Capital City Weekly Planet Alaska: Searching for moon snail nests Even the moon snail is an ancient fellow traveler on this planet. By Vivian Faith Prescott For the Capital City Weekly Tuesday ...

A genetic spin doctor sets snail shells to swirl clockwise, new research confirms. And the twist in this story comes at the beginning — when snail embryos are just single cells. Though most pond ...