Research teams from the Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University have documented the first discovery of five freshwater mollusk species in the Early Pleistocene Tananwan Formation of northern ...

Snails may look slow and sleepy, but evolutionarily the freshwater mollusks in Lake Biwa have been busy. However, despite evidence of morphological and genetic variation, new species divergence long ...

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings. In their research paper, the authors explain the name Idiopyrgus eowynae, ...

Scientists found a small animal in a river of Guangxi that uses its shell to “dance” and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Xu Cheng Wei and Yue Ming He via Chen, He, Wang and Pan ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

Snails (Gastropoda) are a stroke of luck for paleontologists: because of their hard shells, these animals are very often preserved as fossils. Snails therefore form an important and well represented ...

In the southern hills of the Mexico state of Coahuila, water bubbles from below the surface to create crystal clear pools between the rocks. The freshwater springs are known as Los Chorros, the jets, ...

Environmentalists are urging federal officials to save a pair of Northwest species that you’ve probably never heard of. If you’ve seen one of them, you might have mistaken it for a pebble on the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it ...

Leeches might seem like relics of a bygone age of medicine, but they haven’t outlived their usefulness to people yet. The freshwater leech Helobdella austinensis can eat its weight in snails every day ...

A new study shows that schistosome transmission can actually be highest when freshwater snail populations are low. This study demonstrates how the size of a freshwater snail population relates to its ...