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

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

The release brings two species of Desertas Island land snails back to the wild ... that all these invasive predators had eaten the tiny snails to extinction. Then a series of conservation ...

A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell. The species, measuring only 3 ...

This snail might be small but conservation efforts to save it ... Back in the 1980s, people wanted to control the number of African land snails found in French Polynesia so a species of snail ...

Sischo and his team with Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources ... at the top to give them a small shock. Around the quarter-acre enclosure, rosy wolf snails are not hard to spot.

The pea-sized Desertas Island land snail was once believed to have gone extinct after no sightings were recorded for more than a century, but conservationists from the UK and Madeira now hope to ...

More than 1,300 tiny, critically endangered snails that were bred in a UK zoo were released on a remote Atlantic island in a bid by conservationists to save the species.