WASHINGTON (CN) - Four species of freshwater snails may soon have a greater range of protected habitat, according to proposed rules by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The snails are endemic to the ...
An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.
In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...
On islands from Hawaiʻi to the Atlantic, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are disappearing so quickly that ...
Federal wildlife officials are seeking endangered species status for a freshwater mollusk — the “magnificent ramshorn snail” — that’s indigenous to Southeastern North Carolina but hasn’t been seen in ...
Australian trumpet, the world’s largest snail, is found in Australian coastal waters. Learn more about Syrinx aruanus.
A tiny species of snail, which is about the same size as a button, has been saved from disappearing forever. The greater ...
Between 2016 and 2018, researchers used drone and satellite imagery to survey habitats of freshwater snails, which transmit schistosomiasis, at 32 sites of the Lower Senegal River Basin, a site of a ...
The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, the ...