Cara Giaimo

Cara Giaimo is a freelance science reporter. She is the author of Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures and the co-author of Atlas Obscura: Wild Life.

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  1. Nine-Inch Snails

    They block roads, eat houses, and spread literal brain worms. Only Florida knows how to deal with them.

    Cara Giaimo
    A giant African land snail sits and moves its body while sitting on top of the Earth.
    Illustration by Adam Maida / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.