Nature is full of dangerous parasites and bacteria that can harm their hosts. But did you know that there are some parasites that turn their hosts into zombies? While not actual zombies, of course, ...

A creature no bigger than a coin has pulled off one of conservation’s most unlikely comeback stories. The greater Bermuda land snail, a species that had quietly slipped out of sight and was widely ...

Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snails A button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after ...

This video answers a question I received asking "how many quail do I need to keep to grow for food" and whilst it is somewhat of an open question that can have many conclusions depending on several ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human eyes are complex and irreparable, yet they are structurally like those of the freshwater apple snail, which can completely regenerate its eyes. Alice Accorsi, assistant professor of molecular ...

This snail could one day save eyes. The golden apple snail has camera-type eyes that are fundamentally similar to the human eye. Unlike humans, the snail can regenerate a missing or damaged eye. UC ...