Giant African land snails are back in Florida, spurring intensive efforts to destroy the invasive mollusks before they spread and wreak agricultural and environmental destruction. After one of the ...

The appearance of the snails caused the state’s agriculture department to place parts of the second-largest county in Florida in quarantine, making it illegal to move the animals. By Rebecca ...

As these invasive snails take advantage of the hot, wet ambiance of southern Florida, they leave glistening trails of slime across backyards, parks, forests, and gardens. The Sunshine State is a ...

Officials in Florida are again battling a highly invasive, extraordinarily destructive giant snail species that also happens to be capable of spreading parasitic worms that invade human brains.

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 Department of Agriculture confirmed that giant ...

MOORE HAVEN, Fla. — In Florida's Everglades, few species are more closely tied to the habitat's health than an endangered bird, the snail kite. The Everglade snail kite is a raptor, similar to a ...

And now giant snails. While maybe not as frightening, the tiny, slow snail has found a way to attack Florida — but this one is not so tiny anymore! Giant African snails can reach 8 inches long ...

Florida has alligators, sharks and now African land snails. And they're huge! These slimy mollusks – which grow to more than five times the size of a garden snail – pose a health risk to ...

As a result, people in a 3.5-square-mile area of Florida’s Broward County are prohibited from moving the giant African land snails, and they also must not transport certain plants, soil ...

Loki was found with his "head and neck gnawed off" and his "body partially buried," an animal behavior wildlife experts call ...

The giant African land snail is capable of causing extensive damage to “tropical and subtropical environments,” meaning it can prove devastating to Florida agriculture and wildlife ...