Now, state wildlife officials are sounding the alarm about another unwanted creature that was recently discovered in the murky depths of Lake Lanier: “mystery snails.” Mystery snails belong to ...

Rowe leads the search with admiration, and a warning, for the newest invasive species oozing into Georgia: the Chinese mystery snail. "They aren't a mystery, we know what they are," Rowe explained.

In a recent cooperative study, WRD and Dr. Tyler Achatz’s parasitology lab at Middle Georgia College (MGC), examined two species of invasive aquatic snails, the apple and mystery snail ...

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 ...

The creature, a Chinese/Japanese Mystery Snail, was found during routine sampling on Lake Lanier. But the one snail sighting was only the beginning. “While we initially hoped that this was an ...

Dumping aquarium pets into local waters can negatively affect the ecosystem — and the consequences don’t always come at a snail’s pace. Flathead Lake is now home to mystery snails ...

The mystery of the volcano-dwelling snail and its iron shell has been unravelled by scientists after its genome was decoded for the first time. The scaly-foot snail survives in what researchers ...

identified as the apple snail and mystery snail, carrying around parasites. According to DNR, the snails were found to have a "low-level presence" of rat lungworm. The good news is they note that ...

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now, footage of the ...