BROWARD COUNTY, Florida -- Some neighborhoods in Broward County in Florida are under quarantine Tuesday after sightings of invasive giant African land snails, known to be one of the most dangerous ...
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 ...
Giant African land snails are back in Florida, spurring intensive efforts to destroy the invasive mollusks before they spread and wreak agricultural and environmental destruction. After one of the ...
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, ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A central Iowa preschool was the center of a federal snail-smuggling investigation after officials learned that the school kept three Giant African Land Snails as pets. A ...
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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