Scientists have discovered two new snail species the size of a grain of sand—the tiniest known land snails on Earth. “It's amazing how small they are—we wouldn’t have expected that,” says Adrienne ...

A newly discovered snail species is the smallest yet found on land. Angustopila psammion, discovered in cave sediment in northern Vietnam, has a shell just 0.48 millimetres high and a shell volume of ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. The story I'm about to tell became much more interesting once I invited a zoologist into the narrative. Yet, this tale wouldn't have come around if I ...