snail

Ben Cooper has been a fisherman in Whitstable on the north Kent coast since 1997, and relies heavily on the common whelk, a type of sea snail.

Endangered Polymita tree snails, which are disappearing from their native forest habitats in Eastern Cuba, have vibrant, colourful and extravagantly patterned shells.

K-beauty products are often more attractively priced than their Western counterparts - but also feature ingredients that are not as commonly found in the West - from heartleaf to snail mucin.

One neighbor notified others that a “snail-poison” had been spread near a property and posted signs around the home that read, “Caution. Keep pets away! Toxic snail poison. Avoid white powder.”

She got down on her hands and knees and was astonished to realize she had stumbled upon a rare species of sea snail, Janthina janthina .