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Tainan City, Taiwan

Snail Alley

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.
crime

Podcast: GALS Gone Wild

Hear what happens when a man tried to smuggle in 22 giant African land snails into the United States.
The Podcast Team March 5, 2024
One distinction between a snail and a slug: The snail has a shell.
science

Why Are Snails and Slugs So Slow?

These mollusks evolved to mosey along at a particularly ponderous pace—the reasons why may surprise you.
John Tooker, Daniel Bliss, and Jared Adam January 2, 2024
Lisbon, Portugal

Casa dos Caracóis

Feast on buckets of garlicky snails.
Tokyo, Japan

Eye-Eating Demon of Inari Kio

Only recently added to the shrine, this googly-eyed snail demon of unknown origin is said to have eye-healing powers.
'Caracol de Vida' ('Snail of Life')
Xpujil, Mexico

'Caracol de Vida' ('Snail of Life')

A monument in the shape of the mighty conch honors the history and symbolism behind this shell.
Bacalar, Mexico

Caracol Chivita Murals

This series of paintings celebrate a locally beloved snail species.
Sneglehuset
Thyborøn, Denmark

Sneglehuset (The Snail House)

A Danish fisherman spent 25 years covering nearly every inch of his home with tens of thousands of shells as a gift to his wife.
'Sweet Brown Snail'
Munich, Germany

'Sweet Brown Snail'

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.
A longtime resident of the Dorset countryside, the geoglyph known as the Cerne Abbas Giant has a new estimated age, thanks to novel research.
science

How Do You Date an Ancient Giant? Try Snails and Lasers

The famous Cerne Abbas Giant gets a new birthday thanks to a novel approach for estimating the geoglyph's age.
Keridwen Cornelius August 16, 2021
The gleaming white Tahitian tree snail <em>Partula hyalina</em> rests on a leaf beside one of the world's smallest computers.
islands

Tiny Computers Reveal How Tahiti's Tree Snails Evade a Fierce Predator

The bean-sized snail has persevered despite hundreds of related species going extinct in recent decades.
Hannah Thomasy July 14, 2021
A researcher on hands and knees surveys the rare flora and fauna on a "breathing hill" in the Upper Midwest's Driftless.
caves

The Ice Age Persists in the Upper Midwest, Where the Hills Breathe

In the Driftless, a rare combination of geological quirks has preserved ancient ecosystems. But climate change is coming.
Gemma Tarlach May 20, 2021
These snail eggs were spotted on the shore of San Clemente del Tuyú.
science

Argentine Beaches Are Sometimes Speckled With Giant, Pearly Orbs

And that's bad news for the snails that produced them.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 3, 2021
A snail from the Paxman farm.
farms

80,000 Snails, 12 Tiny Electric Fences, and 1 Rediscovered Recipe for 'Wallfish'

It's snail-herding season in England.
Richard Collett April 22, 2021
Lerwick Public Sign Snails
Lerwick, Scotland

Lerwick Public Sign Snail

The unexpected mascot of Shetland's capital.
Ernie's training culminated with a parking-lot demonstration of sniffing prowess.
animals

The Milwaukee Dogs That Learned to Sniff Out New Zealand Mud Snails

In a Wisconsin basement, two Labradors learned to detect tiny aquatic hitchhikers.
Ashley Stimpson January 11, 2021
A small snail's new diet has some big implications.
fungus

What Tiny Snail Poop Could Mean For Latin America's Coffee Farms

“I just followed a trail of excrement.”
Luke Fater February 13, 2020
Snailer and malacologist Norine Yeung in a field of trampled uluhe.
islands

In the Field With the Intrepid, Dedicated Snailers of Hawai‘i

Tiny gastropods, huge undertaking.
Sabrina Imbler November 22, 2019