Someone took the phrase "snail mail" a little too literally. Workers at a delivery center made an odd discovery after becoming suspicious about the contents of a package. When they opened the box, ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (MDC) - The latest in a seemingly endless parade of exotic plants and animals to show up in Missouri has a name that seems ironic to those struggling to hold the line against ...

While the process is often thought to occur slowly, these birds have evolved quickly Scientists are mapping snail kites’ genome to determine exactly how it’s happening A graph plotting bill size of ...

The New Zealand mudsnail is tiny, about the size of a pencil point, but it is colonizing the planet. The snail has spread far from its home, throughout rivers, lakes and streams in Europe, Australia, ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (KLFY) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited an Opelousas man for alleged illegal possession and release of exotic apple snails into a ...

At one point there were only some 700 snail kites left in the world.But in the last decade or so, these dusky, red-eyed little raptors, found only in Florida, have made a comeback. Their rebound may ...

ORLANDO — South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco ...

NORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities seized about a hundred animals from a Long Island home packed with exotic species — including a giant African snail, a sulcata tortoise and a South American ...

Coral Springs is holding an Exotic Pets Amnesty Day on Saturday during which people can bring over weird animals not native to Florida and drop them off. And that’s just a short list. All these ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities ...