This is the dismal, strange, and wondrous path trodden by director, writer, and production designer Adam Elliot in his brilliant film Memoir of a Snail. Having long dwelled in narratives that ...

The shells that we place on ourselves. This idea of the intangible things that we carry on our backs, like insecurity, depression, grief, and trauma, is at the core of Adam Elliot’s moving stop-motion ...

The “scarlet worm” is mentioned 25 times in the Bible, often alongside other prised colours like blue (tekhelet) and purple (argaman). These colours were associated with wealth and status.

As skincare enthusiasts, we are no strangers to off-beat ingredients (hello, salmon sperm facials), but snail mucin might just top the list. The idea of slathering snail secretions on your face ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian writer-director Adam Elliot’s celebrated “claymation biographies” are definitely not for children. They’re ...

Beautiful to look at and humorous in its reflections on the 1970s, Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail touches on important aspects of being human. That’s not a criticism in itself. Some stories ...

However, a new study has witnessed this amazing process unfold in a figurate blink of an eye. A team of researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and Norway’s Nord ...

Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail is such a film. Told through stop motion animation using clay (otherwise known as claymation), the film is a tactile experience in which everything you see has ...

In hidden cavities beneath the floor of the deep ocean, in the oases created by hydrothermal activity, whole communities of multicellular animals are living their best lives down in the darkness. The ...

An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has revealed worms, snails, giant tubeworms and other strange creatures lurking below steamy underwater hot springs.

A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living in cavities below the sea floor — the first time animals have been discovered in such habitats. The creatures may have been pushed into their ...

An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has revealed worms, snails, giant tubeworms and other strange creatures lurking below steamy underwater hot springs.