DETROIT -- Customs officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport made an unusual -- and potentially dangerous -- discovery in a passenger's luggage: Six giant African snails. The snails, which were ...

Customs officers discovered an unorthodox souvenir in a traveler’s suitcase in Detroit last week. The officers found six giant African snails in a passenger’s luggage, and the snails were still alive, ...

A quarantine zone has popped up for select neighborhoods throughout Broward County this week after sightings of the invasive giant African land snails, known to be one of the most dangerous species.

Ninety giant African snails were confiscated by US Customs and Border Protection at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport late last month, the agency said in a news release Tuesday. An “odd odor” coming ...

FILE - A rout of giant African snails gather on Aug. 28, 2019, in a corner in Havana, Cuba. Invasive giant African land snails that can eat building plaster and stucco, consume hundreds of varieties ...

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 ...

Giant African land snails are back in Florida, spurring intensive efforts to destroy the invasive mollusks before they spread and wreak agricultural and environmental destruction. After one of the ...