Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person reaching out finger to touch snail - Catherine Delahaye/Getty Images Snails can be a real nuisance in the garden, sometimes ...

Scary and slimy and nasty — giant African land snails invaded Coral Gables back in 2013, but this time, they’ve come out of their shells and introduced themselves to Miramar, prompting a quarantine ...

With its beaches, sunshine and amusement parks, Florida can be a wonderful place. Lately, however, one giant and often misplaced organism after another has invaded the state. First, it was the snakes.

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 ...

ROMULUS, Mich. — Earlier this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they seized half a dozen invasive snails that were found in luggage at an airport in Michigan. In a news release, ...

Although "Invasion of the Killer Snails" sounds like the title of a 1950s horror film, it could just as well be a recent headline in a South Florida newspaper. First, a bit of history: In the 1920s, ...

Ninety giant African snails were confiscated by US Customs and Border Protection at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport late last month, the agency said in a news release Tuesday.An "odd odor" coming ...

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