She Started Collecting Oyster Shells from Restaurants. Now She's Accumulated More Than 24,000 Pounds (Exclusive)

Kaysha Kenney’s oyster shell recycling program has grown to 24,000 pounds, helping restore oyster reefs and support ocean ...
Scientific American

Meet the endangered scaly-foot snail, the most metal animal in the world

This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...
Discover Wildlife

“It can almost leap, quickly smothering its unfortunate prey with a blanket of flesh.” Meet the deadly snail that gallops across the sand

On the face of it, Agaronia propatula is an unobtrusive sea snail. It’s smooth, brown and lozenge-shaped, and not even that ...
North Country Public Radio

Greetings from Seville, where springtime means caracoles

Spring is snail season in Seville. Caracoles in southern Spain differ from the well-known French escargot — they're smaller ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

The shells of these sea snails look like miniature elephant tusks

They didn’t look like much at first, just a scatter of white slivers along the tide line. At a glance, they could’ve passed for fish bones or bits of plastic, the kind of debris beachcombers often ...
Uganda

Grace Kyarimpa Turns Snails into Profitable Venture in Uganda

In Uganda, snails are often viewed as pests or symbols of bad luck, but Grace Kyarimpa is proving their worth as a lucrative agribusiness. The CEO of AgroDiverse Impacts Limited started her venture in ...
a-z-animals

No Bones About It, Nature’s Most Amazing Invertebrates

Though the idea of roaming around boneless is foreign to us as humans, it is actually the state of the vast majority of life on our planet. Known broadly as invertebrates, these animals thrive without ...
The Courier-Journal

Pink snails are slowly making their way toward Louisville. Here's why

Thirty-five large, pink snails have started their journey from Woodland Farm in Goshen to downtown Louisville ahead of Steve Wilson’s Kentucky Derby Eve party. The Pink Snail Migration, which ...
WLKY

Herds of (fake) massive, pink snails are inching toward Louisville. Here's why.

NASDAQ WAS UP 117 AND THE S&P WAS UP 29 POINTS. A UNIQUE ART INSTALLATION IS MAKING ITS WAY TO LOUISVILLE. HAVE YOU SEEN THESE GIANT PINK SNAILS ARE SLOWLY MAKING THEIR WAY FROM OLDHAM COUNTY TO ...
WUFT

The charismatic snails snacking on the springs’ algae problem

In the 2010s, scientist Dina Liebowitz scooped up algae-coated tiles from the waters of the Ichetucknee River as visitors bobbed, splashed and floated along the surface in inner tubes. When the ...