Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists' eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom wiped them out from the skerry. While the researchers intentionally brought ...

Dense groups of marine snails called Littorina saxatilis once thrived on a group of Swedish islands called the Koster archipelago. But in 1988, a massive bloom of toxic algae hit the islands, and ...

In long-lived lakes that existed for millions of years freshwater snails developed a particularly high diversity of species. A new study by SNSB paleobiologist Thomas A. Neubauer now shows the ...

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University of Iowa biologists discovered that a New Zealand freshwater snail duplicated its entire genome, capturing a rare evolutionary transitory state. The finding shows how large-scale genetic ...

At one point there were only some 700 snail kites left in the world.But in the last decade or so, these dusky, red-eyed little raptors, found only in Florida, have made a comeback. Their rebound may ...

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 ...