After arthropods, molluscs – the group that snails and slugs belong to – are the second biggest phylum of animals on the planet. In the UK alone, there are 100 species of land snail, and that doesn’t ...

Snails are marvelous but unassuming little creatures. As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically ...