Iowa Public Radio

To save a giant snail, New Zealand targets the non-native critters that eat it

In the forests of New Zealand's North Island, park rangers have been working for more than a decade to save a threatened population of giant snails. Now, these are not your average garden snails. They ...
Yahoo

Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South's rice and crawfish farms

KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...

The World’s Largest Snail Is Surprisingly the Size of a Human Child

While many people picture small garden snails, some species grow to astonishing sizes and can weigh several pounds. One of ...
The Island Packet

‘Giant’ creatures in New Zealand mountains recovering from ‘being eaten alive’

Giant land snail populations are recovering in areas that have received targeted predator control over the last 15 years, according to experts. Getty Images/iStockphoto For the last 15 years, wildlife ...