Hundreds of non-native animal & plant species live in Florida. They prey on native critters & damage native ecosystems.

Blue Hole Spring is particularly popular – a crystal-clear swimming spot that looks like someone dropped a piece of the Caribbean into North Florida. The park also offers camping, picnicking, and ...

When your skin feels itchy and tight, you likely reach for a moisturizer made for dry skin. Or maybe you pick up a serum infused with hyaluronic acid, a humectant ingredient known to hold a thousand ...

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Background: Investigated within the endometrial carcinoma (EC) context, Snail-1 emerges as a pivotal transcription factor governing invasion and metastasis by orchestrating epithelial-to-mesenchymal ...

Photo by Jennifer Schlick Snails have over 1,000 microscopic teeth. Some eat leaves, but different snails eat many different things, including other snails. Of all the flora and fauna in the region, ...

Newbery medalist Avi (Crispin ) returns to animal fantasy with this gently humorous tale about two travelers in search of excitement, an earlier version of which appeared as a beginning reader (Snail ...

The Desertas Island is a place where time seems to stand still. It rises dramatically from the Atlantic Ocean like a jagged fortress in the Portuguese Madeira archipelago. However, the Desertas is an ...

More than a million species are at risk of extinction, many within decades, because of human actions. Kāhuli, Hawaii's native tree snails, are among these at-risk species. They're some of the most ...

Scientists have found Partula snails born in the wild on the French Polynesian island of Moorea, showing that a 40-year effort to save these tiny creatures is working. Partula snails were wiped out ...