Did you have an aquarium when you were growing up – or do you have one now? Did you have snails in it? In nature, our rivers, creeks and lakes are filled with freshwater snails … or were until ...

Potamopyrgus antipodarum, commonly known as the New Zealand mud snail, has emerged as a paradigm for invasive species research. Its global proliferation is underpinned by a suite of opportunistic ...

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 from The American Naturalist studies some very fast snails and their success at long-distance colonization. Introduced into the rivers of the Martinique islands less than twelve years ago, ...

ALL RIGHT. 508 NOW AN INFESTATION OF SORTS ALONG WATERWAYS. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN PINK SNAIL LIKE CREATURES GROWING NEAR CANALS. THE JEFFERSON AND ORLEANS PARISH IS. YEAH, IT’S GOT SOME PEOPLE SCRATCHING ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE SEARCH FOR THE SUSPECT. MORE THAN 200 OTHERS WERE INJURED. THE ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH COMMISSION IS ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC'S HELP IN PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF GIANT APPLE SNAILS, AN INVASIVE SOUTH ...