Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

A study led by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has shown for the first time that a father’s exposure to microplastics (MPs) can trigger metabolic dysfunctions in his ...

Snails are curious creatures. They can be found in abundance in a garden one day, and the next, they are nonexistent. Much of this has to do with the environment around them. When the weather is ...

A new in-wheel motor for electric vehicles (EVs) delivers a massive amount of torque in a lightweight package, its developers say. The motor — which was made by YASA, a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz ...

A cold front is expected to approach Central Florida on Thursday and Friday. Warmer temperatures could lead to scattered rain chances and isolated storms, according to NWS Melbourne. Rain chances are ...

A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

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 ...