Learn about snails with a roundup of snail facts. Discover what snails eat, when they get shells, how long they sleep and how fast they move.

What if you could employ land snails in a similar zero-waste system? Instead of homegrown vegetables, the ultimate yield for your table would be escargots, those glistening nuggets of protein. Yes, ...

Snails have over 1,000 microscopic teeth. Some eat leaves, but different snails eat many different things, including other snails. Photo by Jennifer Schlick Of all the flora and fauna in the region, ...

In the forests of New Zealand's North Island, park rangers have been working for more than a decade to save a threatened population of giant snails. Now, these are not your average garden snails. They ...

The global appetite for French snails reaches even the smallest producers. L’escargot des Valanques, a small one-man farm in Provence, was once approached by an importer from Singapore, who offered to ...

Some snails specialize in things like leaves and algae, and some eat primarily earthworms, while some species, such as marine snails, spend much of their time hunting small fish. With such a varied ...