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 ...
Eight Giant African land snails have been found abandoned in bushes in Sheffield. The mammoth molluscs, whose shells are 5cm across, were found by a member of the public at Hartley Brooke Dyke in ...
The giant African land snail may look friendly, but the state of Florida has gone to great lengths to eradicate it — twice. Now, the slimy creatures are back again. Officials confirmed on June ...
No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...
Parts of Florida's Broward County were placed under quarantine after a giant African land snail was spotted in the area, CBS News reported. Adult snails of this species can grow up to eight inches ...