For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

This is why Project Janszoon have established weka-proof areas within Abel Tasman National Park to try and give the snails a bit of respite. The fenced-off areas are around 70 by 70 meters (230 by 230 ...

Commonly found in backyard gardens throughout the world, snails live a very interesting life. But how long do snails live, ...

In this video, we rescue abandoned puppies and provide them with a unique, snail-shaped mud house as their new shelter. Surrounded by a serene fish pond, this natural build offers a peaceful ...

which they can store until they each fertilize the sperm they’ve received to create eggs,” Flanagan explained.The snails take an extraordinary eight years to reach sexual maturity, and once ...

How do snails mate and lay eggs? “Powelliphanta have solved this by having an opening (a genital pore) on the right side of their body just below their head so that the snail only needs to peek ...

Take, for example, a curious little snail species you’ve probably never heard of. It has a truly baffling biological quirk: it lays its eggs through an opening in its neck. Just let that sink in ...

The meat and snail eggs can be consumed as escargot (as menu on the table) and as a delicacy. Raising snails for food is called heliculture. Snails are hermaphroditic and this means that each ...

A horse conch lays eggs on a coral reef near Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph by Michael Patrick O'Neill, BluePlanetArchive A horse conch, the largest marine snail in the Northern Hemisphere ...

In Thailand and Mexico, people eat ant eggs, which are described as slightly sour and nutty. Snail eggs are food in France, Spain, and Italy, and can cost hundreds of dollars. And dinosaur eggs ...

The New Zealand mud snail is a major pest overseas.Dean Kozanic / Stuff Almost no solutions have been found for the globally invasive New Zealand mud snail, a major new review of the available ...