A small shed-like structure built in the longleaf pine forest a stone’s throw from Andy Wood’s Hampstead home is one of the last places on Earth that the magnificent ramshorn snail can be found. For ...

This snail hasn't been seen in the wild in over 20 years. Biologists are working to bring it back. The Magnificent Ramshorn snail is only known to come from one part of NC but hasn't been seen in the ...

Parts of Broward County, Florida, are under quarantine after a giant African land snail was found earlier this month, agriculture authorities said. Officials “confirmed the detection” of the invasive ...

A Magnificent Ramshorn snail at biologist Andy Wood’s snail refuge in Hampstead. Wood took the Magnificent Ramshorn into captivity in the early 1990s. He has maintained a population of the snails, ...

With its beaches, sunshine and amusement parks, Florida can be a wonderful place. Lately, however, one giant and often misplaced organism after another has invaded the state. First, it was the snakes.

Snails like the magnificent ramshorn eat plant matter in water, digesting it and then pooping it out, Wood said. Their refuse is then available for plankton, which feed small fishes and gradually work ...