‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Taylor Knapp says that he finds snails "fascinating", which is probably for the best, given that he looks after as many as 70,000 of them. Mr Knapp is the founder and owner of the largest snail ...

More than 200 snails have been rescued from their fate as a French delicacy thanks to a gastropod enthusiast. Connor Bouttell received the shelled creatures in the post after learning they were ...

A team successfully transplanted memories by transferring a form of genetic information called RNA from one snail into another. The snails were trained to develop a defensive reaction. When the ...

A snail is an equally comforting and discomfiting creature. Its ornamental shell is both a home and armor. Its glacial pace, often accompanied by a viscous sludge it leaves behind, make it a messy ...