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Evolutionary advantage often makes for show-stopping stuff--a cheetah's speed, for example, or a moth's almost perfect mimicry of tree bark. In some snails, however, it's simply down to a poor fit ...

Ecuador has five new species of snake, described by science for the first time. But these critters aren’t just any rainforest snakes: the new species have a diet that’s exceptionally weird, eating ...

The land snail Satsuma caliginosa sheds its "tail" (or foot) to escape a snake predator. Here, the snail is regenerating its tail. Adult S. caliginosa have shells with armored openings. The hole from ...

Better to lose your foot than your life, at least if you're a snail. In a move reminiscent of certain lizards that can voluntarily detach their tails, young Satsuma caliginosa snails self-amputate ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Federal officials say a tiny snail that lives along a 65-mile stretch of the Snake River in southern Idaho still deserves protection as a threatened species. The Idaho Statesman ...

The five snakes, located in Peru and the rainforests of Ecuador, sustain themselves in part by sucking snails out of their hard-shelled habitat by using a modified jaw, which allows them to go where ...

After a long night of searching for snakes in Ecuador, Alejandro Arteaga and his team of researchers got ready to retire. The evening’s excursion, in a swampy region of rain forest, hadn’t yielded any ...

Five species of previously unknown snakes with stunning eyes were discovered in jungle trees, and one was named after Leonardo DiCaprio. But mining threatens them all. When you purchase through links ...

Better to lose your foot than your life, at least if you're a snail. In a move reminiscent of certain lizards that can voluntarily detach their tails, young Satsuma caliginosa snails self-amputate ...

Better to lose your foot than your life, at least if you're a snail. In a move reminiscent of certain lizards that can voluntarily detach their tails, young Satsuma caliginosa snails self-amputate ...