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We found a snail farm and a problem we didn’t expect

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

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

Mr. Drew and His Animals Too teaches us about two species found in Africa that you won’t see in Maine

PORTLAND, Maine — Andrew Desjardins owns and operates Mr. Drew and His Animals Too, an animal rehabilitation and education ...

Homegrown snails are your garden’s most unlikely by-product

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, ...
The Guardian

Bermuda snail thought to be extinct now thrives after a decade’s effort

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 ...
IFLScience

This Snake Is "Right-Handed". Don’t Believe Us? Just Wait Until You See It Eat A Snail

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
Cleveland.com

How an Elyria mom built a small business from aquarium snails: Hali Hart

When I bought my first mystery snails, I wasn’t thinking about business. I wasn’t thinking about customers, shipping boxes, or publicity of any kind. I just needed a solution for algae. A small ...
The New York Times

To Feel at Home in a New Place, It Helps to Think Like a Snail

When I moved abroad, I found the slimy mollusks everywhere. Then they taught me how to adapt. By Gabe Bullard On the first morning without rain after I moved to Switzerland, I woke up, still ...
The New York Times

The Heist of Its Culinary Crown Jewels Rocks a French Village

Shop owners say the thieves who took 990 pounds of snails must have been escargot cognoscenti. By Ephrat Livni It was not quite the Louvre heist, but for a village in northeastern France, the recent ...
WVXU

To save a giant snail, New Zealand targets the non-native critters that eat it

In the forests of New Zealand's North Island, park rangers have been working for more than a decade to save a threatened population of giant snails. Now, these are not your average garden snails. They ...