Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over ...

PHOENIX – Applesnails are a common aquarium pet, but they’ve also become a nuisance in some of the state’s waterways. The Arizona Game & Fish Department wants to eradicate them from the lower Salt ...

A South American intruder is taking over some of Arizona’s waterways. The apple snail is multiplying at an alarming rate in the Lower Salt River. It might be slow moving, but it's fast eating. The ...

Unfortunately, Dane Cook might have said it best: “there is one person in every group of friends, that nobody fucking likes. You basically keep them there to hate their guts. When that person is not ...

Most of us have been very disrespectful toward snails and slugs, thinking disgusted thoughts and turning into executioners of the low-riding mollusks. David Gordon wants to change your perception. The ...

Israel Garcia paddled his kayak above underwater growth near cattail reeds along the banks of the Salt River. He scanned the waters, just below the surface, hunting for snails that didn't belong. He ...

This past summer in Salt Lake has had its fair share of exceptionally wacky weather. Most of the attention rightly focused on the record high temperatures and the inevitable connection to climate ...

OLYMPIA — Back-flushing Capitol Lake with salt water from Budd Inlet in early March did little to control a New Zealand mud snail invasion in the lake, a state biologist said Wednesday. The mortality ...

Salt marshes in the southeastern United States have recently experienced massive die-off, one of many examples of widespread degradation in marine and coastal ecosystems. Although intense drought is ...

According to a recent study in the scientific journal PeerJ, a bright yellow snail unlike any other discovered species lives in the Florida Keys. It's official name is Cayo margarita, which refers ...