Whether you have one snail, a pair, or many, choosing names for your gastropods is part of the fun of having them as pets. It's a great way to make them feel more like family. Snails are small, quiet, ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Jeremy's counterclockwise shell is one in 100,000 which makes finding a mate hard Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

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 ...