Fed up with attention they don't need, some female snails have learned to smell like guys. Unlike other species of periwinkle snail, Littorina saxatilis ladies can't be identified from chemical cues ...

A seaside snail crawling along the gooey streak left by another snail is saving a lot of energy, say researchers, because it doesn’t have to ooze so much slime itself. “It’s much, much more expensive ...

Periwinkle snails may have indirectly worsened the impact of Hurricane Katrina by decimating an estimated 250,000 acres of Gulf salt marsh between 1999 and 2003, according to research presented in the ...

The Bowdoin Marine Science Semester launched four years ago with large ambitions for enriching student’s education with research in the field. Since then, molecular ecologist Sarah Kingston — one of ...

Science has not exactly been kind to the rough periwinkle. For one, taxonomists keep forgetting the species, known to malacologists as Littorina saxatilis, exists. It’s been “discovered” so many times ...

There is one local snail that I would bet everyone who lives in coastal New England knows and loves: the common periwinkle. What young person hasn’t picked up a periwinkle from the beach and tried to ...

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world. It’s a question all females have to address in one way or another: ...

From South Carolina to Texas, salt marshes have experienced a massive die-off in recent years, threatening fisheries and leaving coastal areas vulnerable to flooding. The culprit, ecologists have long ...

Have you heard of periwinkles? Not the color, but the sea snail making like tiny X-Men and evolving at superspeeds to heroically survive the next century of climate change. Their newfound powers might ...