Every aquarium owner hopes for one thing. A perfectly clean tank that somehow takes care of itself. It sounds ideal, but experienced aquarists know the truth. No fish or creature can completely ...

Once abundant in California, the white abalone had all but vanished. Now, thanks to an innovative breeding program, it’s staged a remarkable comeback On a sunny January afternoon in Bodega Bay, some ...

This is a house... and a skeleton. But you probably know it as a snail shell. Snails are actually born with their shells when teeny tiny snails hatch out of their eggs, they already have a shell ...

When I bought my first mystery snails, I wasn’t thinking about business. I wasn’t thinking about customers, shipping boxes, or publicity of any kind. I just needed a solution for algae. A small ...

The stars of the hedge fund world used to take big swings and sometimes hit grand slams, like John Paulson when he shorted the U.S. housing market before the 2007-09 financial crisis and made $20 ...

Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only discovered a wild population of Campbell’s keeled glass-snail on Australia’s ...

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After going nearly extinct in the 1990s, these tropical snails have made a fabulous comeback—highlighting the value of carefully planned, long-term conservation projects. Reading time 2 minutes ...

The scientific community would have you believe that snails come in many, many different varieties, but there’s a much simpler way to classify them: pesky and not pesky. Your typical garden snail ...

Many scientists model biological processes with the study of mice, rats, and even flies, but snails have been especially useful to Dr. Maurine Neiman. She has been a professor of gender, women’s, and ...

Cannabis breeders have notoriously been reclusive and secretive, primarily as a byproduct of Prohibition. While the last century has pushed many mainstream agricultural commodities towards a more ...