Would you eat this? Louisiana officials are warning the state’s cooks to be wary if they try to eat the invasive giant apple snails spreading in swamps. The snails are native to South America.

In the sun-baked fields of central Tunisia, a growing number of unemployed young men are turning to an unlikely source of income: snail hunting. With traditional job opportunities scarce and food ...

A snail is a small mollusk with a spiral-shaped shell. Snails are famous for moving very slowly and for leaving a trail of slime behind them. They all have shells that they can retreat within. You may ...

Conjure up an image of your ancestors from fifty thousand years ago, tirelessly migrating across continents, discovering fire, inventing the wheel, domesticating animals and building civilizations.

Ken Albala is the author of The Lost Art of Real Cooking with Rosanna Nafziger. He harvests garden snails from his property, feeds them, cooks them and eats them for dinner. He says the common garden ...