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A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

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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 ...

Twelve large conch shells found in Spain may have been used as trumpet-like instruments, according to new research. Two archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, Miquel López-García and ...

The waterboy is perhaps one of the most well-known but least-understood positions in the NFL. Perhaps that's because of Adam Sandler's The Waterboy, or perhaps it's because we simply don't talk much ...