You walk along the beach these days and it looks fairly empty compared to the summer; no more crowds, few dogs, even the wrack line is sparse. But here and there are clusters of washed up shells, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Emily Holden said she brought her dog, Royce, to the veterinarian for a mass on his leg in May. While there, she mentioned to the vet that Royce drank an abnormal amount of water the ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — – When Darwin the Labrador retriever crashed out of a service dog program for people, conservationists found him a very different sort of job: sniffing out giant African land ...

A garden provides attractive feeding grounds for many types of animals, including the ravenous snail. Peggy has watched parts of her garden disappear as snails eat away, and wants to fight back. Peggy ...

The giant African land snail, a potential health risk to humans, has once again invaded Florida — and officials are using specially trained dogs to sniff out the invasive species. Florida's ...

Now that’s a good boy! A mollusk-detecting dog in Florida is sniffing out a species of snail that could lead to meningitis outbreaks in humans. State agriculture officials sounded the alarm last month ...