Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, there were millions of Partula snails in French Polynesia. Then, after an invasive predatory species was introduced ...

A snail may have been saved from the “edge of extinction” after more than 1,300 born in a world-first breeding programme were released into the wild. The pea-sized Desertas Island land snail was once ...

A group of critically-endangered snails returned to the wild on Norfolk Island last year are not only surviving, but reproducing. Last year saw Australia’s first large-scale snail translocation, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month a wooden crate containing 1,000 adult snails and 2,000 juveniles embarked on a 3,000-mile journey from a zoo in the ...

A new study describes nine new species of carnivorous land snails, all of which are so small they could fit together on a U.S. nickel. They present a rare opportunity to study a group that in many ...

To bring abalone back from the edge of extinction, scientists need to find improved ways of coaxing the snails into reproducing. By Wudan Yan Kristin Aquilino, a scientist at the University of ...