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 ...

The oversized nuisance has a name: the giant African land snail, or GALS. Denise Feiber, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, told Reuters' Barbara Liston ...

South Florida is under attack, and the non-native species threatening to wreak havoc seems innocent enough: It's not the giant Burmese pythons that made a home in the Everglades in 2000, nor a ...

Jon Ablett, from the UK's Natural History Museum, spoke to the BBC in 2013 after an outbreak of the snails in Florida Live snails, fresh leaves and a quarter-pound of beef were found this month ...

Six Giant African Snails were recently seized at Detroit Metro Airport. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the live snails were brought by a traveler who arrived in the United States from Ghana.

In 2017, the Florida population of the iconic sea snail stood at 700,000 adult queen conchs. But after Hurricane Irma in 2017 ...