WildCare receives some 200 calls per year about skunks in Marin County, but the uptick in spraying and overall noticeable skunk activity during mating season occurs statewide, according to Piazza.

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, ...

Freshwater streams, ponds and lakes across the United States are becoming saltier, and new research from the University of ...

Review provides a classification system based on tools that allows for accessible understanding of mollusk teeth.

Five previously unknown tree-dwelling snake species, including one named in honor of Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, were found in the jungles Central and South America. Credit: Alejandro Arteaga ...

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.

There’s nothing like that first spring salad you’ve been babying for weeks. And there’s nothing like walking out one damp morning to find every leaf lace-worked with holes and shiny trails everywhere.

Slugs took a liking to the milkweed in our pollinator garden. They stripped the leaves from one tender young plant and were munching on two other plants--until we dispatched them. We don't think they ...

Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over a thin layer of slime that they produce to ease their way. Snails carry a ...

Even the meeting of lips can become an aggressive act in the animal kingdom. When humans come lip to lip, the result is a tender kiss, but this is not so for all animals. Some creatures throw mouths ...

Unusually among animals, land snails produce cellulase, an enzyme that can break down cellulose, says Tony Cook. As such, it is quite common to see them feeding on paper and cardboard, which are both ...

Scientists found a 1-foot-long predator with “enlarged” yellow eyes in the bushes of a mountain in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Getty/iStockphoto In the mountains of ...