Correction: Snail face story

In a May 20 story about a boy trying to get into the record books by covering his face with live snails, The Associated Press misspelled the boy's surname. He is Fin Keleher, not Keheler.

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43 snails on his face? Boy hopes he set a record

Never mind the ick factor, a Utah boy is trying to get into the record books by covering his face with live snails. Eleven-year-old Fin Keheler, from Sandy, allowed 43 of the slimy mollusks to be put on his face Saturday. He wants the Guinness World Records to verify his effort.

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Slimy snails do the locomotion

How can a snail crawl along the surface of a pond while hanging upside-down underwater, especially when there’s seemingly nothing to grab? The spot-on snail solution, according to a team of engineers, is finding the perfect balance between surface tension and the motion of the snail’s large, slime-trailing foot.

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Worrying invasive snail found in Lake Michigan

Scientists worry that a rapidly reproducing, tiny invasive snail recently found in Lake Michigan could hurt the lake's ecosystem.

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Text Messaging on Rise With Young People

E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder — a parent, teacher or a boss — or to receive an attached file. But increasingly, the former darling of high-tech communication is losing favor to instant and text messaging, and to the chatter generated on blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

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THE late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin was known for his fast reflexes and quick Aussie wit. But now one of the world's slowest moving creatures - a tree snail - has been named in his honour.

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Slugs and snails have been eating the mail.

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Members of the public across Europe are being asked to look in their gardens or local green spaces for banded snails as part of a UK-led evolutionary study.

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A Chinese man says he's had the same snail as a pet for 11 years - and takes it for walks.

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After clambering down a canyon wall, ducking poison ivy vines and wading chest-deep across a lukewarm stream, Cary Myler spied some flecks that look like pepper sprinkled on a wet rock and announced, "Found some."

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Image Gallery: The seas are ablaze with the amazing hues of these unusual animals and the creatures that depend on them.

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DULUTH, Minn. May 2, 2006 (AP)— A small, spiral-shaped snail that clones itself and is native to New Zealand has been discovered in Duluth-Superior Harbor and the St. Louis River estuary, raising concerns about the impact of another invasive species.

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Snails hitching a ride from birds

For long scientists had little clue how land snails ended up on islands in the middle of the ocean. Biologists now have an idea how it happened: by hitching a ride from birds. This is suggested by genetic research published in Nature by Gittenberg et al.

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