Ned is a common garden snail from New Zealand, and while that might not sound like a key problem when it comes to looking for ...

The magazine launched a nationwide campaign to find a mate for Ned, named for the left-handed character Ned Flanders in The Simpsons. That explains the male name, although snails are hermaphrodites ...

Ned’s shell coils to the left, not the right, making him the 1 in 40,000 snails whose sex organs don’t line up with those of ...

Animals reproduce in one of two distinct ways: egg-laying or live birth. By studying an evolutionarily recent transition from egg-laying to live-bearing in a marine snail, collaborative research has ...