As rock climbing soars in popularity, some cliff-side snail populations may be crashing, according to new research. While focusing attention on cliff ecosystems, the finding is also instigating ...

When rock climbers are clinging to a cliff face, the health of the ecosystem is probably the last thing on their minds. But new research shows that rock climbing cuts snail diversity in half in the ...

A robot, designed to mimic the motion of a snail, has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol. Adding to the increasing innovative new ways robots can navigate, the team, based at ...

A team of engineers have set a small robot climbing walls in order to compare how natural and artificial snail slimes work. A snail's slime acts as both a glue and a lubricant, allowing the snail to ...

March 31 (UPI) --Scientists in Japan studied the phenomenon of why some land animals move to the tree tops by examining the Japanese tree-climbing land snail. The Japanese tree-climbing land snail, ...