BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The invasive apple snail is popping up all over south Louisiana, causing problems for crawfish and their producers. “We’ve had a number of crawfish ponds in the past three ...

Biologists and volunteers have removed 300 apple snails and destroyed over 8,000 snail egg masses from the lower Salt River.

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 ...

Apple snails can fully regrow their eyes, and their genes and eye structures are strikingly similar to humans. Scientists mapped the regeneration process and used CRISPR to identify genes, including ...

KAPLAN, La. (AP) — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...

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