This video explores how an unexpected food source could play a major role in protecting Africa’s bush animals. As growing demand for snail farming expands, it offers an alternative to bushmeat, ...

Birds, unlike their dinosaur ancestors, lack teeth, relying on beaks and gizzards for eating. Some birds have evolved tooth-like adaptations for gripping prey. Mammals like the giant armadillo boast ...

Slimy and slow, snails may not be the most glamorous of creatures. Yet they are starring in their own exhibit at the Western Science Center in Hemet. Called “Life in the Slow Lane,” it spotlights the ...

Rain came one evening to soften the afternoon heat. I sat outside on my back steps watching the clouds grow ever fuller, swelling like gray balloons until they finally burst, spilling out across the ...

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They may look slow and harmless, but Giant African Snails are linked to the spread of a serious parasitic disease. Find out how these invasive creatures are affecting ecosystems and human health ...

Snails are widely considered one of the slowest animals in the world. Like most gastropods, they do not have legs and instead use a muscular ventral foot for movement. Their lack of legs is likely to ...

Human eyes are masterpieces of biological engineering, but once damaged, they cannot rebuild themselves. Golden apple snails, by contrast, routinely replace an entire camera-type eye within a month.

Apple snails can fully regrow their eyes, and their genes and eye structures are strikingly similar to humans. Scientists mapped the regeneration process and used CRISPR to identify genes, including ...

This snail could one day save eyes. The golden apple snail has camera-type eyes that are fundamentally similar to the human eye. Unlike humans, the snail can regenerate a missing or damaged eye. UC ...