This is the “flamingo tongue snail,” one of the most brightly colored snails on the reefs of the South Atlantic. It used to be a common sight, but in recent years has been disappearing, either because ...

Researchers from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and the Natural History Museum, London (Thanit Siriboon, Chirasak Sutcharit, Fred Naggs and Somsak Panha) discovered many new taxa of the brightly ...

The most striking, colorful snails in the world are in danger — precisely because of their beauty. Polymita tree snails (also known as Cuban painted snails) are highly prized in eastern Cuba. Beloved ...

A new year means new holiday seek-and-find puzzles by the masterful brainteasing artist, Gergely Dudás, a.k.a the Dudolf. With the December holidays behind us, it's time to start looking toward the ...

No salt on this margarita, please. Scientists honored the late Jimmy Buffett by naming a newly discovered species of marine snail living in the Florida Keys after one of his most iconic songs. The ...

They are the Christmas tree ornaments of the Everglades, snails with shells colored in brilliant swirls of pink, blue, white and yellow. South Florida’s unique species of tree snail — wiped out of ...

AN infuriating new challenge is sweeping the internet with puzzlers eager to prove that they have superior observation skills. Puzzlers are tasked with spotting the carefully illustrated love heart ...

When garden snails (Helix aspersa) eat colored paper, they poop colored feces, which designer Lieske Schreuder is hoping to use as the material for colorful tiles. The snails Schreuder keeps happily ...

A new pop art exhibit at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (FWBG) is already captivating people of all ages. It features 80 larger-than-life animal sculptures that came all the way from Italy and were ...

Three new species of brightly colored carnivorous snails have been described from north and northeastern Thailand, as a part of an extensive study of the terrestrial snails family Streptaxidae. The ...