Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a pre-Hispanic camp in Mexico where the ancient Maya cooked and ate snails. The researchers uncovered the camp during excavations in the municipality of ...

Broken bits of shells found in a cave in South Africa have given researchers the earliest evidence for prehistoric people roasting and eating snails. Other studies have pointed to snail consumption at ...

Seventy people in Beijing have been diagnosed as suffering from Guangzhou Angiostrongylus meningitis, the Beijing Bureau of Health said at a press conference yesterday. The bureau said the meningitis ...

If readers are experimenting with cooking and eating apple snails, they aren't reporting how it's going. After Gibson's Tim Rochel announced in 2008 that the fist-sized mollusks were becoming common ...

In a large, sparsely furnished room at a food processing plant in the town of Migennes, in France's Burgundy region, three employees prepare large snails for packaging. They take the snails' flesh, ...

Taylor Knapp is one of just a few snail farmers certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The certification is crucial, he said. “Otherwise you’re just kind of a guy with some snails.” He is ...