Estivation is a trick used by some animals to get through dry spells. It is like hibernation, but is in the summer. Read more here.

A single night of spring rain can transform a quiet garden into a slow-moving feast. Leaves that looked flawless yesterday ...

While people and many animals might look pretty symmetrical on the outside, inside our bodies we are all fundamentally asymmetric. For example, the human heart is found to the left of center. Snails ...

Snails have particular food preferences that dictate what they will and won’t eat, just like any other animal out there. But as you might come to expect, hungry snails are more willing to eat what ...

Some animals kidnap sea snails to carry on their backs to help ward off predators. Researchers in Germany and Australia found that some animals will use the sea snail's ability to produce a chemical ...

The global pandemic made 2020 an exhausting year, but for many people one thing brought some much-needed relief — animals. But it’s not just cats and dogs enjoying more of our attention; people have ...

The aptly named cone snail wears a house that resembles a Ben & Jerry’s receptacle, filled not with ice cream but with a squishy mollusk that sports an extendable, trunklike proboscis. The snails are ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

It took decades for this endangered bird to reclaim its habitat. The snail kite, one of Florida’s most imperiled birds, appeared to be in the midst of a complicated success story after Hurricane Irma ...