Find out more about terrestrial snails, their classification, diet, and natural history in this illustrated natural history of snails.

Snails are invertebrates, they lack a backbone. They belong to a large and highly diverse group of invertebrates known as the Phylum Mollusca (also known ...

Gastropods (Gastropoda) include a wide variety of organisms such as terrestrial snails and slugs, sea slugs, sea hares, sea butterflies, canoe shells, ...

Most terrestrial snails are hermaphroditic which means that each individual possesses both male and female reproductive organs.

The earliest known snails were similar in structure to limpets. These creatures lived in shallow sea water and fed on algae and they had a pair of gills.

Terrestrial snails have eyes that are located on the tips of their upper, longer pair of tentacles. But snails don't see in the same way we do.

Snails start life as an egg. Snails bury their eggs in a nest a few centimeters below the surface of the ground.

Species of snails have evolved in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats. A snail's shell provides it with protection from changing weather conditions.

Snails are usually active in the summer, but if it gets too warm and dry for them, they enter a period of inactivity known as estivation.

Terrestrial snails move using their muscular foot. By creating an undulating 'wave' motion along the length of the foot, a snail is able to push against the ...