This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Sanibel shell museum: This glossy shell is one of the rarest in the world ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing ... which can grow so large that New Zealand's ...

They are carnivores that slurp up earthworms like noodles, and are some of the world’s largest snails , with oversized, distinctive shells in a range of rich earth colors and swirling patterns.

Showcasing 121 of the world's most intriguing shells ... would once have sold for hundreds of pounds. They were so rare and in demand that counterfeit shells were created and sold. This glove from the ...

Mollusks have a physical bias toward the right, just as most humans are right-handed, and this makes their shells spiral clockwise. (Very rare mutations can produce “left-handed” mollusks ...

"I was frankly astounded when Zora showed me a small top shell that she had just found amongst the grit. "It's very, very rare and that's what I was so astounded about: that Zora had stumbled ...

They are carnivores that slurp up earthworms like noodles, and are some of the world’s largest snails , with oversized, distinctive shells in a range of rich earth colors and swirling patterns.

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the ... Zealand's conservation department calls them "giants of the snail world". A conservation ranger said she was gobsmacked to witness a captive ...