A snail from the Canary island of La Gomera produces its impressive camouflage layer by itself in the process of an unexpectedly complex behavioural pattern. The snail grazes lichen material from the ...

Snails produce a lot of slime, and it is incredibly useful to them. Snail slime is made of a mixture of substances. It is mostly water mixed with proteins and some carbohydrates and minerals, formed ...

CreatureCast - Flamingo Tongue Snails from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. This is the fourth of four contributions from undergraduates in Casey Dunn's Bio0041 Invertebrate Zoology class. This episode is ...

The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...