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 ...

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 ...

Buoyed by the effects of an intense drought, otherwise harmless snails likely killed off thousands of acres of salt marsh in the Southeast in recent years. Periwinkle snails, known to science as ...

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 ...

It looked like marsh periwinkle snails were taking over a stretch of marsh along the trail to the Narrows in First Landing State Park over the weekend. The tide was coming in and little grayish-white ...

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 ...

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 ...