What if you could employ land snails in a similar zero-waste system? Instead of homegrown vegetables, the ultimate yield for your table would be escargots, those glistening nuggets of protein. Yes, ...

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...

Andrew Desjardins teaches us about African land snails & giant African millipedes.

We came to Ivory Coast looking for stories… and somehow ended up running a giant African land snail nursery in a hotel bathroom. After a wild local “potion,” a chaotic market mission, and a plan that ...

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is cracking down on the eradication of the giant African land snails that have recently been found in Pasco County. The ...

The global appetite for French snails reaches even the smallest producers. L’escargot des Valanques, a small one-man farm in Provence, was once approached by an importer from Singapore, who offered to ...

A rare Florida cold front stunned and killed thousands of invasive iguanas, but wildlife experts warn the population is ...

An early February cold snap killed iguanas across South Florida, delivering a natural blow to one of the state’s most damaging invasive species.

As well as leaving a little ‘wild space’ in gardens, people have been urged to ‘put away the chemicals and the slug pellets.

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snails A button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...