No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...

Alison Irwin during her Ph.D. research at the Natural History Museum, sheds light on how these remarkable eyes support the snails' unique escape strategies. "Large, high-resolution eyes are ...

A new study, led by Dr Alison Irwin during her PhD research at the Natural History Museum, sheds light on how these remarkable eyes support the snails’ unique escape strategies. “Large, ...

Since 2008 when the local presence of this invasive land snail was first noticed, numbers have spread to areas across the country hitherto free of such pests. This writer encountered large ...