The World’s Largest Snail Is Surprisingly the Size of a Human Child

While many people picture small garden snails, some species grow to astonishing sizes and can weigh several pounds. One of ...

Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.

World’s biggest sea snail: The Australian trumpet is nearly the size of a human leg and hunts hidden prey

Along parts of the Western Australian coast, large shells sometimes lie half buried in tidal mud. They belong to Syrinx aruanus, known as the Australian trumpet and regarded as the largest living sea ...