The African giant snail captivates as the quiet star of the terrarium scene: enormous, slimy, and intriguingly different. On ...

Florida plant detectives are on the trail of a slippery foe, an invasive African land snail that is wily ... In the four years since giant African snails were discovered in Miami, they have ...

Wild-born individuals of the species had not been found in more than 40 years, experts said. Photo by Justin Hu via Unsplash On a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, a rare species once ...

Many Partula snail species went extinct in French Polynesia after the rosy wolf snail was introduced to the islands to control the giant African land snail population, experts said.

There are roughly 4,000 distinct species of freshwater snails in the world. Land snails, on the other hand, have a much larger group. 3. The Giant African Land Snail is One of the Largest Snails in ...

In 2024, 90 Giant African Land snails were seized from a traveler at the airport. The traveler brought them from Ghana for consumption but agriculture officials said if released, would could cause ...

He’s written about Florida’s wealth of quirkiness, like “a religious cult that smuggled Giant African Land Snails in because they thought drinking the mucus would make you healthy,” Pittman says. “It ...