Slow and steady wins this race. An annual snail racing event — which holds a Guinness World Record as the longest running humane snail-racing world championships — is making a comeback post pandemic.

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For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...

It may be the slowest race on the planet. England just hosted the Snail Racing World Championships over the weekend. UPI reports how this past Saturday marked the return of the event in Congham — a ...

HRI's “Beachcombing” weekly series offers an opportunity to see strange, fascinating objects and species on the beach, but it also offers a window into the Gulf of Mexico.

On your marks. Get set. Go. If you've ever attended a race event, you've probably heard these commands. Everyone gets in position, and then they dazzle onlookers with their speed. But this weekend in ...

Beneath the clear tropical waters lurks one of the ocean’s most dangerous creatures — the Geographer Cone Snail (Conus geographus). Its beautifully patterned, intricately marbled shell conceals a ...

More than 50 species of tree snail in the South Pacific Society Islands were wiped out following the introduction of an alien predatory snail in the 1970s, but the white-shelled Partula hyalina ...

A gif of a snail turning its head and seemingly watching a car drift around a bend in a road is a genuine, undoctored piece of footage. What's Undetermined It's unclear if the snail was reacting to ...