Giant African land snail carries disease, eats crops. April 16, 2013 — -- The giant African land snail may fit in the palm of your hand, but it is posing a big threat to Florida residents. State ...

The African giant snail captivates as the quiet star of the terrarium scene: enormous, slimy, and intriguingly different. On social media, these creatures are becoming cult figures. However, their ...

Giant land snail populations are recovering in areas that have received targeted predator control over the last 15 years, according to experts. Getty Images/iStockphoto For the last 15 years, wildlife ...

Giant African land snails are phenomenal creatures. As you can see from the magnificent specimen in this Instagram post, they can grow the length of an adult human hand. The person in the image looks ...

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 ...

This is no fairy tale: A giant snail has arrived in the Big Apple, and the only happy ending will feature its destruction. In June, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reported ...

What it eats: As an adult, it doesn't! All of the snail's nutrition is generated internally, by endosymbiotic bacteria — microbes that live in the snail's gut. The scaly-foot snail, or volcano snail, ...