As if drowning weren't enough, there are so many ways the ocean will end your life. Add to the lethal list of box jelly fish, blue ringed octopus, fugu and the always popular great white shark, the ...

Garden snails seem simple, but they’re full of strange features and habits most people never notice. They move slowly, hide [ ...

For someone with a lot of knowledge about wildlife crammed into my head, you would think I’d have no problem coming up with topics for these articles. However, I have to remind myself that not ...

I was working on a column when my husband Ralph asked me to come take a picture of a huge snail in the garden. Garden snails are my husband’s nemesis. Some men take aim at deer or wild hogs, but my ...

Leeches might seem like relics of a bygone age of medicine, but they haven’t outlived their usefulness to people yet. The freshwater leech Helobdella austinensis can eat its weight in snails every day ...