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Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...
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Road salt turns deadlier for freshwater snails under predator stress

Road salt becomes much more deadly to freshwater snails when predator stress is present, raising mortality rates.
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‘Extinct’ Snail Found in Alleyway Results in Species Pulled Back From the Brink: A ‘Once in a Career’ Moment

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.

The world's largest snail is nearly one meter long and almost as heavy as a three-year-old child

A pet snail in West Sussex once stunned record keepers with a 27.3cm shell, yet ocean species grow far larger. So which snail truly claims the crown for size?

Rare Snail Once Declared Extinct Is Saved from Obliteration After Landmark Conservation Effort

"It's every conservationist's dream to help save a whole species – and that's exactly what we've done," said Tamas Papp of the Chester Zoo ...

An invasive species once saved this Florida bird, but it’s disappearing

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...