According to Sky News, southern Florida is experiencing an outbreak of giant snails. This is not a hoax or a plot from a B-movie. This is actually happening. Buugggggh.

Up to 1,000 of the critters are being caught a week in the Miami-Dade county area, and while not only gross, they're also posing a threat to buildings and people. Buildings because they eat their way through plaster and use the calcium to grow their shells, and people because they carry the rat lungworm parasite, which can harm people if it gets into veggies or water. Did we mention that these snails can grow as big as rabbits? Because they can. They've even been known to blow out car tyres in places where they're super common like the Carribean.

It may sounds like a terrible horror movie plot especially when authorities are describing it as 'a slick mess' with 'over 500 known species of plants' under attack, going for 'pretty much anything that's in their path and green.' Maybe we've been distracted from the real environmental problem all along. Invasion of the giant snail. Be on your guard.