The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

Road salt becomes much more deadly to freshwater snails when predator stress is present, raising mortality rates.

This tree-climbing giant is one of the largest land slugs on Earth – and its bizarre mating ritual is unlike anything else in the natural world.

A thriving garden is full of life, but not all living organisms are beneficial to plant growth. In addition to butterflies, ...

From spraying mates with urine to changing one's sex, these are the most intriguing courtships in the animal kingdom.

WildCare receives some 200 calls per year about skunks in Marin County, but the uptick in spraying and overall noticeable skunk activity during mating season occurs statewide, according to Piazza.

Residents near San Rafael in Northern California have complained of a pungent smell interrupting the season of love. The ...

A conservation journal is to release a study on an endemic Bermuda snail once thought to be extinct. A small colony of ...

The global appetite for French snails reaches even the smallest producers. L’escargot des Valanques, a small one-man farm in Provence, was once approached by an importer from Singapore, who offered to ...

Mexican cartels have been managing to get a hold of high-caliber ammunition from a plant set up in a facility owned by the ...