Scientists profile the mucus of Cornu aspersum -- a snail species used in beauty product formulation and eaten as escargot -- and detail the composition of three unique types of secretions -- one that ...

Jerry Coleby- Williams visits the Queensland Museum to meet the ‘snail whisperer’, Dr John Stanisic to find out all about snails. The European garden snail, Cornu aspersum, is a much-maligned garden ...

If you have a worm bin at home, you understand the efficiency of invertebrates. A healthy colony of red wrigglers can eat their collective weight every day, recycling your kitchen scraps into worm ...

Edible snails represent a promising alternative source of animal protein that combines high nutritional value with relatively low environmental impact. The flesh of commonly farmed species such as ...

What is snail mucus? That was the question posed by researchers in a new study that examines the molecular composition of snail mucus. When analyzing the mucus of a common garden snail, they found it ...

A dendrogram (tree) showing the genetic similarity between 71 proteins against ~180 related proteins that were found previously in other mollusks. The results confirm that even when compared against ...