A case of mistaken identity sparked a false alarm this week when word spread that the giant African snail - a voracious mollusk that poses a potential health threat to humans - had come to town. Turns ...

This article was originally featured on Field and Stream. On June 22, a gardener was working in a Pasco County, Florida, when they noticed a number of unusually large snails. The next day, the Florida ...

Sometimes conducting big science means discovering a species not much larger than a grain of sand. This happened for Evin Carter, a research associate and wildlife ecologist at the Department of ...

"Giant African land snails are illegal to own in the U.S. due to their potential to destroy ecosystems and carry disease." "These snails are considered a destructive invasive species that can harm ...

Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...