Hiking is tricky when you’re carrying a federally threatened species. Ally Whitbread carefully hopped over logs and dodged prickers while toting a cooler full of tiny, rare snails. "I feel like I've ...

Monitoring the last wild Chittenango ovate amber snails, scientists tiptoe through a waterfall spray zone the size of a living room. A Chittenango ovate amber snail inspected a new leaf placed inside ...

On New Year’s Day, a little land snail named George died in his terrarium at the University of Hawaii. He was 14 years old—a robust age for his species, Achatinella apexfulva. But George’s passing ...

Think of a world where your travels are measured in inches rather than miles per hour. This is a story about snails. It took me quite a while to write. Life slows down, it seems, when you spend time ...