Rearing snails in the laboratory can cause important changes in their behavior, researchers have found. “We found that great pond snails follow the slime trails laid down by other snails as they move.

On a quiet patch of land apparently devoid of inhabitants, Krasimir Kostov's farm is silently booming as more than one million snails, hiding from the sun under planks of wood, munch their way to ...

Hope rises for snail farmers as an Ogun State entrepreneur, Prince Wole Adeyanju, launches an initiative to reduce the long maturity period of the organism. This, he says, will encourage more ...

Companies and landlords are setting up underground snail breeding rackets in another way to avoid paying their share of tax. Images show boxes sat in a modern but empty office space, sealed with ...

It's a tactic humans have tried time and again thanks to its apparent simplicity: Dislike a pest? Enlist something that will eat it. The starfish, which boast 13 to 21 arms, gorge on coral. "They ...

Research published today in the Journal of Molluscan Studies carried out by Dr Sarah Dalesman, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Aberystwyth University's IBERS, and James Liddon (University of ...