A case of mistaken identity sparked a false alarm this week when word spread that the giant African snail - a voracious mollusk that poses a potential health threat to humans - had come to town. Turns ...

You may think of snails only as small mollusks that wreak havoc in your garden or crawl around on the sidewalk after rain. But in many parts of the world, including France, Germany, and Portugal, ...

PORT ORFORD -- State officials say Alice Pfand has an eagle eye. More realistically, she seems to have a sixth sense for snails. That snail sense proved to be the perfect trait for this volunteer ...