But halfway across the world, there's another type of snail that is just as popular. And it's called ốc, or "sea snails." In the streets of Vietnam, people have been eating them for centuries.

A deep-sea snail, many of Europe's fungi and half the freshwater fish in Japan are just some obscure additions to a list of threatened species. The Red List, a conservation status catalogue of ...

British Snails: a Guide to the Non-Marine Gastropoda of Great Britain and Ireland, Pliocene to Recent. By A. E. Ellis. Pp. 275 + 14 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University ...

A new study has suggested that the venom of a sea snail could be used for drugs to treat diseases that affect hundreds of ...

The sea snail with shell measures a little less than ... it is designated as a near-threatened species on the Environment Ministry’s Red List and listed in the Vulnerable (VU) category by ...