The animal realm also has its stories. Animals are a critical component of our environment, both domesticated and wild and they do have some amazing stories! Wonderbot Animals is the place for you ...

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is cracking down on the eradication of the giant African land snails that have recently been found in Pasco ...

BELVIDERE, Ill. (AP) -- Boone County health officials confiscated a pair of giant African snails Friday from a family in the Rockford area.

The beautiful, fade-resistant dye produced by these snails thus played an important role in the recognition of social hierarchies in early Western civilization. Globalization: Giant African Land Snail ...

Kenyans mourn African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. By EVELYNE MUSAMBI, Associated Press May 29, 2025. This 2010 image released by UC Irvine shows Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87. AP Bennet Mbata holds books of renowned Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o. By Associated Press.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya's capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who died Wednesday in the United States.

Bennet Mbata, who has sold African literature at the Nuria Bookstore for more than 30 years in Nairobi, ... Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87.

Two giant snail species, Gargantua and Pantagruel, were discovered near black smoker chimneys at Mid-Atlantic hydrothermal vents. Learn more about these finds.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States.

Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87. The prolific writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, originally from Kenya, died at 87 in Bedford, Georgia on ...