Biocontrol is often cheaper than applying agrochemicals, especially if the introduced “natural enemy” can thrive without ...

Achatina, a genus of giant African land snail, was the life's study of Albert R. Mead. For more than 60 years, he was the world's leading authority on the exotic and destructive creature.

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 County.

Rangers witnessed a captive Powelliphanta augusta snail lay an egg from its neck, and they managed to catch it on video for the first time ever. New Zealand Department of Conservation A small ...

A pet giant African tortoise braved a roaring rainstorm, calmly staying put in the yard. Footage shows the four-year-old sulcata named Kiro calmly resting in his shell amid the bad weather in ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness. His work spanned roughly six decades ...

Current Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga sent condolences to the author’s family, saying “a giant African has fallen.” The author’s son and fellow writer, Mukoma Wa Ngũgĩ ...