New research on pond snails has revealed that high levels of stress can block memory processes. Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Calgary trained snails and found that ...

New research on pond snails has revealed that high levels of stress can block memory processes. Researchers trained snails and found that when they were exposed to multiple stressful events they were ...

Scientists "train" the snails not to open their air-holes, or pneumostomes, by gently tapping them. Stressed-out snails don't learn from this training. When humans are stressed out, they often have a ...

In numerous different animals, cognitive ability, including learning and memory, is often negatively affected by stress. But not all individuals of a particular species are equally good at cognitive ...

Most snails are righties. Now scientists have found genes that make some of them born with shells coiling the other way. By JoAnna Klein The overwhelming majority of snails live in shells that coil to ...

Research with trained pond snails has provided new evidence that flavonoids found in foodstuffs such as cocoa, green tea, and red wine really can boost memory. University of Calgary scientists showed ...

Scientists have identified which environmental stress conditions encourage pond snails to remember and which make them forget. Following training, predator scent super-sensitised the snails whilst ...

North Carolina wildlife officials on Thursday released 2,000 endangered snails back into the wild. The Magnificent Ramshorn snails were released into a pond in Brunswick County. According to the North ...

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Snails have particular food preferences that dictate what they will and won’t eat, just like any other animal out there. But as you might come to expect, hungry snails are more willing to eat what ...