Led by researchers from the University of Utah, scientists have discovered a component within the venom of a sea snail that mimics a key human hormone involved in regulating blood sugar and ...

There is a serious scientific aim to Dr Davison's work and he discovered a gene which determines whether a snail's shell twists in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction. He said the same gene ...

It may seem unlikely, but snail mucin – the slime produced by snails – has become a popular ingredient in skin care products. Makers of South Korean cosmetics have helped boost slow ...

Those chemicals would kill Giant African Land Snails. The snails pose a serious health risk to humans by carrying the parasite rat lungworm, known to cause meningitis in humans. On June 23 ...

The more uncertainty the business of film must weather, the more necessary a city’s film festivals become. To me, anyway.

Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. Thousands of extremely rare Partula snails bred at Edinburgh Zoo are to be released into the wild in French Polynesia to help restore the ...

‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Crates of snails were found in an office building in Liverpool, in what the city council has described as a business rates avoidance "tactic" A city centre office building has been home to a snail ...

Read our full commerce guidelines here. The first time I heard people talking about snail mucin skincare products, I thought it had to be some kind of joke! Surely slathering actual snail slime ...

Slugs and snails are very discerning in what they eat, bypassing the weeds to devour our favourite plants. They're difficult to stop and, while you can still use bated pellets containing ferric ...

Thousands of rare partula snails bred at Edinburgh Zoo are to be released in French Polynesia to restore the wild population of the species. The last surviving few of the species were rescued in ...