Consider the snail. Humble, deliberate, primeval, the wee gastropod that comes to mind when we hear or see that one, simple word — snail — is seemingly the very last creature about which anyone would ...

Animal rescuers in Britain are trying to determine where a package was supposed to, ahem, escargot,after workers at a distribution center discovered a Giant African land snail. Workers in Hinckley, ...

Britain is a land that, whilst progressive and forward thinking for the most part, holds on to its traditions like limpets clinging to rocks. Just take a walk around London’s Horse Guards Parade or ...

“THE want of a handy work of reference, giving in a convenient form descriptions and figures of all the British non-marine Gastropods,” inspired the author to attempt the present publication. He has, ...

British conservationists are up in arms after a spate of snail thefts in a Surrey wood. Slippery poachers are gathering up thousands of Roman snails, which are then being sold off for up to £1 each to ...

The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts remains a mystery (Credit: The British Library) The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious monster: ...

A team of British and Cuban scientists has embarked on a mission to save several species of snail whose unique beauty has threatened their very existence. Polymita snails, native only to the forests ...

WHEN I told colleagues what I’d eaten for lunch one day last week, it was greeted with screwed up faces and cries of “yuk”. Snail caviar, they sneered, now why would you want to eat something like ...

Crates of snails were found in an office building in Liverpool, in what the city council has described as a business rates avoidance "tactic" A city centre office building has been home to a snail ...