SAN DIEGO — A parasite commonly called "the zombie snail" has been found at Lake Murray. In 2019, a student of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professor Ryan Hechinger found a snail that looked a ...

A breeding population of Chinese "mystery snails" has surfaced in a Georgia lake, prompting fears that they could spread parasites and damage property, per an advisory by the Georgia Department Of ...

The natural world is always fascinating, with millions of unique species for us to explore and research. But now and again, nature presents us with something so strange that it is, frankly, bizarre.

People may become infected when they eat unwashed produce hiding the mollusks. Home-growing food and keeping pets also raises the risk.

GAINESVILLE – A rare parasite found in snails and rats that can cause serious health problems in humans and animals is more pervasive in South Florida than previously thought, a new study has found.

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (WFLA) — An invasive, giant snail species, that can also lead to outbreaks of meningitis, has been found in New Port Richey, Florida. The Florida Department of Agriculture and ...

Scientists for the first time have discovered a parasite potentially fatal to dogs in a portion of the Colorado River near the California-Arizona border. After multiple dogs were infected near Blythe, ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped out the genomes of two parasites that cause snail fever, a disease that afflicts 210 million rural people worldwide and for which there is still no vaccine ...

The squishy little parasites are less than an inch long, but they cause a globe-girdling disease variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever. The more man does to increase ...

It’s spreading at a lot faster than a snail’s pace. As if the US Southeast wasn’t inundated with enough invasive critters from Asia: A breeding population of Chinese “mystery snails” has surfaced in a ...