From the slow-moving snail heading down the path in your yard to the Giant African Land Snails that people keep as pets (why?

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A team of researchers, including Tejas Thackeray, have discovered a species of land snail from Maharashtra’s Konkan region. A ...

Many Partula snail species went extinct in French Polynesia after the rosy wolf snail was introduced to the islands to control the giant African land snail population, experts said. Instead of preying ...

Kolhapur: Researchers have discovered a new land snail species, ‘Theobaldius konkanensis sp. nov', from Maharashtra's coastal region. ‘Konkanensis' reflects the endemic range of this snail to Konkan, ...

snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically, they have a spiral-shaped shell into which they retract when they perceive danger. While this shell is one of their most characteristic ...