Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only ...

What a bunch of slimeballs! In just the latest major theft of a French national treasure, bandits slipped into a famous snail farm in northern France and snatched nearly 1,000 pounds of escargot worth ...

Thieves have stolen almost 1,000 pounds of escargot worth more than $100,000 from a family-run snail farm, wiping out a year’s stock just as holiday demand hits, according to The New York Times. Inès ...

Shop owners say the thieves who took 990 pounds of snails must have been escargot cognoscenti. By Ephrat Livni It was not quite the Louvre heist, but for a village in northeastern France, the recent ...

Thieves broke into a French farm and stole 450kg of snails worth €90,000 (S$135,500), leaving the farmer scrambling to replace his supply in time for the upcoming Christmas season. L’Escargot Des ...

It might not be the royal jewels like those stolen recently from the Louvre, but a caper last week stole “the fruit of a year’s work” from a French farmer. The methodical operation searched all the ...

Thieves have stolen €90,000 (£79,000; $104,000) worth of snails from a farm in northern France that supplies gourmet restaurants. L'Escargot Des Grands Crus in Bouzy, near Reims, said it had been ...

A French farm near the city of Reims, just 80 miles outside of Paris, reported a heist in which thieves made off with approximately $104,000 worth of snails used to ...

Edible snails - or escargot—are a French delicacy, usually cooked in garlic butter or wine before being extracted from their shell. Producers in France see a rise in sales around December, as people ...