Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only ...

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A rare purple sea snail (Janthina) washes ashore in San Deigo. Scientists reveal its floating bubble-raft lifestyle, striking violet colour and how ocean currents unexpectedly carried it to the beach.

Researchers rediscover tiny tropical land snails, reclassifying lost species and reshaping the tree of life in Central ...

A new experiment shows snail-inspired swarm robots stacking and adapting to move objects across gaps without fixed structures.

What a bunch of slimeballs! In just the latest major theft of a French national treasure, bandits slipped into a famous snail farm in northern France and snatched nearly 1,000 pounds of escargot worth ...

Shop owners say the thieves who took 990 pounds of snails must have been escargot cognoscenti. By Ephrat Livni It was not quite the Louvre heist, but for a village in northeastern France, the recent ...

Thieves broke into a French farm and stole 450kg of snails worth €90,000 (S$135,500), leaving the farmer scrambling to replace his supply in time for the upcoming Christmas season. L’Escargot Des ...

Thieves have stolen €90,000 (£79,000; $104,000) worth of snails from a farm in northern France that supplies gourmet restaurants. L'Escargot Des Grands Crus in Bouzy, near Reims, said it had been ...