Jeremy's counterclockwise shell is one in 100,000 which makes finding a mate hard Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal rescue and ...

Durham, NC – Solitary snails in search of a mate put off parenthood as long as possible in the hopes that a partner will appear. But when Physa acuta snails smell predators, they don't wait as long ...

Meet Jeremy, a brown garden snail in the U.K. who is struggling to find love. Jeremy, who repels most mates because of a rare genetic condition that left him with an unusually shaped shell, was dealt ...

Twisted sex allows mirror-image snails to mate face-to-face, research finds Date: November 21, 2017 Source: University of Nottingham Summary: A new study has found that differently-coiled types of ...

Scientists are hoping to study the genetics of an ultra-rare garden snail are asking the public for its help in finding the lonely mollusc a mate. The snail’s unique qualities make it a one in a ...

A nationwide search to find a mate for a 'one in a million' rare mutant garden snail has been successful. In October, Dr Angus Davison in The University of Nottingham's School of Life Sciences ...

To the human eye, Jeremy doesn’t look that different from most snails, but to other snails he is rather unique. Due to a genetic mutation, Jeremy’s shell swirls counterclockwise and his sex organs are ...