How bizarre fish ‘experiment’ videos from China hijacked the internet’s worst impulses

NBC News reviewed dozens of videos that showed small animals being physically maimed. The videos have spawned their own small ...
Herts Advertiser

Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini dies aged 76

Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food global grassroots movement promoting sustainable food production and local, ...

Slow Food founder and advocate of clean eating Carlo Petrini dies in Italy at 76

Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, has died at 76 in Italy's Piedmont region. Slow Food, known for promoting ...
Newsday

A Taiwanese town embraces a slow pace of life through a snail race

FENGLIN, Taiwan — The Taiwanese town of Fenglin has grown a reputation as a place where life moves slowly and people can catch their breath. Rather than push against this rhythm, the town of around 10 ...
The New York Times

What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection

Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of life. Marine snails in the genus Plicopurpura are sacred to the Mixtec people ...
The Courier-Journal

Pink snails are slowly making their way toward Louisville. Here's why

Thirty-five large, pink snails have started their journey from Woodland Farm in Goshen to downtown Louisville ahead of Steve Wilson’s Kentucky Derby Eve party. The Pink Snail Migration, which ...
WLKY

Herds of (fake) massive, pink snails are inching toward Louisville. Here's why.

NASDAQ WAS UP 117 AND THE S&P WAS UP 29 POINTS. A UNIQUE ART INSTALLATION IS MAKING ITS WAY TO LOUISVILLE. HAVE YOU SEEN THESE GIANT PINK SNAILS ARE SLOWLY MAKING THEIR WAY FROM OLDHAM COUNTY TO ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

These sea snails create bubble rafts to drift in the ocean

Strong onshore winds this week brought in one of the Gulf’s more unusual drifters, the purple sea snail. While riding my e-bike on the beach, I found around a dozen washed ashore, many of them still ...
The New York Times

Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back. By Franz Lidz In Patricia Highsmith’s ...
Newsday

Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South's rice and crawfish farms

KAPLAN, La. — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...
Science News

This snail may hold a secret to human eye regeneration

A snail may hold the key to restoring vision for people with some eye diseases. Golden apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) are freshwater snails from South America. Alice Accorsi became familiar with ...
News Medical

Apple snail eye regeneration offers new insights into human sight restoration

The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye-but, unlike human eyes, it can regrow itself if injured or even amputated. New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...