Around 15,000 participants gathered in the Spanish city of Lleida for L’Aplec del Caragol for a three-day festival dedicated ...

In the sun-baked fields of central Tunisia, a growing number of unemployed young men are turning to an unlikely source of income: snail hunting. With traditional job opportunities scarce and food ...

Two hundred thousand people gathered in Spain’s Lleida to eat 14,000 kilograms of snails over a three day festival ending on Sunday (May 24), in a celebration that began decades ago among local ...

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, ...

Wander through your backyard or walk along a stream and it’s likely you’ll see a snail – small, squishy animals with shells on their backs. Snails are found in water, whether in salty oceans, rivers ...

Would you eat this? Louisiana officials are warning the state’s cooks to be wary if they try to eat the invasive giant apple snails spreading in swamps. The snails are native to South America.

In the ocean off the coast of Antarctica, a snail lives around scorching hydrothermal vents. Its name is Gigantopelta chessoia. From the outside, it looks like any other shelled slug. But on the ...

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 ...