**Species Overview**: The garden snail (_Cornu aspersum_) is the most popular species for pet snails in the U.S., with a lifespan of 2 to 3 years and a shell size up to 1.625 inches. **Basic Care**: ...

"Giant African land snails are illegal to own in the U.S. due to their potential to destroy ecosystems and carry disease." "These snails are considered a destructive invasive species that can harm ...

Hilary Reid is an inveterate eBay shopper and museumgoer who loves tracing the origin of trends — from flight-attendant jumpsuits to the resurgence of marzipan — and collecting NYC merch. Over the ...

If you want to forget your troubles and tune out the state of the world, look no further than an online snail-appreciation group like Pet Snails and Slugs, which has ten thousand members from all over ...

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 ...

The giant African snails can carry the parasite rat lungworm, which is known to cause meningitis in humans, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Stephanie Wenger is ...

If parcels arrived in the early weeks of the lockdown, the wariness with which we collected them off the doorstep — fingertips tented, sweat on brow — arose not only out of a fear of surfaces teeming ...

Snails are slow-going, but some serious muscles (and an extra foot) are hidden underneath the large shells they carry.