Research at a snail's pace

Last year, ">Aydin over at Snail's Tales posted a note about an interesting land snail, Hendersonia occulta . This particular s...

A recent post by Aydin at Snail's Tales recently got some shells of an African land snail, which were the leftovers of a meal rich in s...

Okay, so it's been a while. What am I up to? I'm getting ready to teach my Dinosaur course again, that's what. For those of us i...

I've been doing a little thinking about calcium. Snail's have one absolute requirement that has a rather striking impact on their di...

Succinea cf. ovalis crawling up the side of the tank. The shell is about 1cm long, not quite maximum size for this species. The yellow spl...

I got in to work this morning, and two of my succineid snails were mating. How many people can say that?