A new study describes nine new species of land snails lurking in leaf litter across PNG. The discovery results from an extensive countrywide survey undertaken after a gap of 60 years. The newly ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla, – A quarantine zone was issued for a large chunk of land in South Florida after wildlife officials discovered an invasive giant African land snail that poses a health risk for ...

The snail is known to eat at least 500 different plant species. A portion of a Florida county has been placed under quarantine as state officials work to get rid of the giant African land snail (GALS) ...

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services enacted the quarantine to stop the spread of the snail species, which poses environmental and health threats Averi Kremposky is an editorial ...

A new snail species discovered in South Sumatra shows how limestone habitats hide unique and vulnerable wildlife.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimmy Buffett's music is synonymous with the Florida Keys. His longtime association with the archipelago off the state's southern ...

An invasive species of mollusk with no natural predators has forced the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDCAS) to issue a quarantine order for a community in Broward County, ...

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago—had gone extinct. While later searches turned up some snails that had ...

Across the tropical Pacific, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are slipping out of existence, turning once noisy, living forests into quieter, emptier places. Nowhere is that loss more ...

DEAR AMELIA: Although many of my gardener friends have a different experience when it comes to snails in the garden, ...

Deep beneath the limestone plateaus of western Georgia, a creature barely larger than a grain of rice has been hiding in the ...