Snail-car creators Jon Sarriugarte and his wife, Kyrsten Mate, have written up step-by-step instructions on building your own wild ride. The 22-step process laid out in their Instructables guide uses ...

Violet snails shells are left behind by animals that survive by eating Portuguese men-of-war. I’ve often found violet snail shells on Hawaii’s windward beaches, and could fit about 10 in my palm. Here ...

Snails getting ready for winter are natural carpenters. They construct doors, or maybe you'd call them walls, inside their shells. They do this... "I am going to withdraw from the world," says a snail ...

Cone snails have inspired humans for centuries. Coastal communities have often traded their beautiful shells like money and put them in jewelry. Many artists, including Rembrandt, have featured them ...

"I am going to withdraw from the world," says a snail in Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Snail and the Rosebush. "Nothing that happens there is any concern of mine." In the fall, snails get cold.