Snails have extraordinarily varied diets; depending on the species, they can eat everything from plant material to rotting vegetation and carrion, to live prey like fish and worms. Some snails ...

In the ocean off the coast of Antarctica, a snail lives around scorching hydrothermal vents. Its name is Gigantopelta chessoia. From the outside, it looks like any other shelled slug. But on the ...

Few people probably know that snails have teeth–and quite a few of them. They can not only rasp food but also cut with enormous force. PETBOOK explains why the native Roman snail performs such ...