Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap ...

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

Lisa Flanagan, a ranger at New Zealand's Department of Conservation, filmed the moment the Powelliphanta augusta snail laid its egg from the genital pore in the side of its neck. (Credit: New Zealand ...

Conservationists have been caring for the snails for two decades, but for the first time have seen how one lays an egg.

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate – so some snails ...

The Mount Augustus snail "only needs to peek out of its shell to do the business," she said. The long-lived snails can grow to the size of a golf ball and their eggs can take more than a year to ...

We turned it over to be weighed and saw the egg just starting to emerge from the snail." Conservation department scientist Kath Walker said hard shells made it difficult to mate -- so some snails ...

According to DOC Senior Science Advisor Kath Walker, the snail’s hard shell is helpful when retreating from predators and keeping dry, but presents some problems. Namely, how to transfer sperm ...

Like other snails, Powelliphanta augusta are hermaphrodites, which explains how the creatures can reproduce when encased in a hard shell. The invertebrate uses a genital pore on the right side of its ...