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The African giant snail captivates as the quiet star of the terrarium scene: enormous, slimy, and intriguingly different. On ...

an invasive African land snail that is wily, potentially infectious and can grow as big as a tennis shoe. In the four years since giant African snails were discovered in Miami, they have slowly ...

Partula snails went extinct in the wild because of another snail species—or rather, two. In 1967, the French Polynesian government allowed the giant African land snail to be imported and used as ...