(Gary Braasch / Corbis) When Polynesians arrived at the uninhabited Hawaiian Islands thousands of years ago, they found an array of colorful tree snails, each less than an inch in length, across the ...

In the past, the last thing that came to mind when I thought of snails and slugs was beauty. A little bit of disgust and maybe even fascination at best, but beauty? Today, things look rather different ...