We all love an afternoon nap, but did you know that for some animals, it is literally a lifesaver? This is a very special type of nap called estivation, and several different types of animals, ...

Drawing on his family’s foraging traditions, Stina’s chef Bobby Saritsoglou is showing Philly there’s more to Greek food than lamb and gyros.

From a visitor from England who visited Calgary on the way to Juneau, I learned about the Banff Springs snails, which live in thermal springs with temperatures up to just over a hundred degrees ...

Snails aren’t too picky when it comes to their meals. They’ll eat pretty much whatever they can find, from plant matter to animal waste (and, in some cases, even other snails). Like learning about ...

Many scientists model biological processes with the study of mice, rats, and even flies, but snails have been especially useful to Dr. Maurine Neiman. She has been a professor of gender, women’s, and ...

This Brooklyn artist is obsessed with snails, and wants you to be, too. In David Colosi’s exhibition Snaileidolia at Open Source Gallery in South Slope, there’s a lot more than what meets the eye, ...

KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...