This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Land snail shell is a material commonly identified in the Late Holocene archaeological record of eastern Africa. Typically, archaeologists ...

‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Recent comprehensive land snail collections have been made in Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Early acquisitions were mollusca collections donated from the Royal Society, the Rev. Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, ...

rodents and habitat loss threatened the snails on Deserta Grande Island, so the mollusks were reintroduced on a neighboring island that’s free of invasive species Shi En Kim Aging gracefully ...