Robert Irwin is following in the footsteps of his family by getting a creature named after him! On April 21, the 20-year-old conservationist and son of Steve Irwin announced he had a newly discovered ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only discovered a wild population of Campbell’s keeled ...

ADELAIDE, Australia – Milking snails for anti-cancer drugs and harvesting seaweed for food are among the jobs of the future in South Australia, The Adelaide Advertiser reported. The state is poised to ...

In Australia, they’ve got a giant snail problem. The giant African snail is a true nightmare. These snails grow to the size of a baseball, can lay 1,200 eggs every year, survive all sorts of extreme ...

To save it, they undertook one of the largest captive snail breeding and reintroduction efforts in Australian, and perhaps ...

Introduced European land snails are so common in southern Australia, their parasites are infecting people who accidentally eat them. Medical scientist Andrew Butcher told this month's annual meeting ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A baseball-sized snail with an insatiable appetite for hundreds of plants including cocoa and papaya has been seized and destroyed by Australian officials, who said it posed a huge ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I never thought I’d be writing to you – not least because it’s really hard to type with my radula – but I don’t know what else to do. I’m a predatory marine snail and I’ve always been FEMALE. I know ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A baseball-sized snail with an insatiable appetite for hundreds of plants including cocoa and papaya has been seized and destroyed by Australian officials, who said it posed a huge ...