From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

There’s a trick to finding new species of miniature snails: a bucket of water. “Microsnail” is the term for the creatures with shells measuring 5 millimeters or less, sometimes much less. A species ...

And each snail has a small piece of circuitry and a tiny antenna on its shell. And when that snail passes by a reader it collects, or it's assigned an email, and then it wanders off and slimes around ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it ...