If you spend enough time in Florida’s wetlands, you realize the true locals aren’t people, they’re the birds. On a brutally cold Central Florida morning, I climbed onto an airboat chasing one of the ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

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

Ever wondered what the largest snail in the world is? We take a look at the incredible record-breaking answer.

Road salt becomes much more deadly to freshwater snails when predator stress is present, raising mortality rates.

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, ...

A conservation journal is to release a study on an endemic Bermuda snail once thought to be extinct. A small colony of ...

The parasite, Heterobilharzia americana, can cause canine schistosomiasis and was recently detected along the Colorado River after dogs fell ill near Blythe, California, marking a spread beyond its ...

Two years ago a parasite that can potentially kill dogs was discovered for the first time on the shores of the Colorado River ...

The greater Bermuda snail was rediscovered in an alleyway and reintroduced with more than 100,000 snails after years of careful breeding. Experts call the recovery a "once in a career" moment for ...

An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.