Warm water pelagic snails don’t get much attention, but they certainly should. The snails move between ocean surface waters at night where they feed to their daytime sleeping quarters several hundred ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Movement enables mobile organisms to respond to local environmental conditions and is driven by a combination of external and internal factors ...

*Life Story of the Snail* (1963) is an **11-minute color educational film** produced by **Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation (EBEC)**. This documentary presents a **photographic study** ...

In the world's oceans, billions of tiny marine snails (a form of plankton) commute daily between surface waters, where they feed at night, to depths of several hundred metres during the day to rest ...

Limacina helicina looks like most any other sea snail — until it beats what look like delicate wings and "flies" through the water. A newly published study in the Journal of Experimental Biology says ...

Over the past six decades, China has carried out an aggressive program to control schistosomiasis, or snail fever, a disease caused by a parasitic worm that moves from its snail hosts to humans. Cases ...

A tiny non-native, invasive snail has been discovered at Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission hatcheries, leading the agency to implement emergency actions. According to the commission, New Zealand ...

Once again, Florida plans to eradicate the giant African land snail, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls "one of the most damaging snails in the world." It's a "highly invasive agricultural ...