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 ...

P. augusta is also called the Mount Augustus snail, named after the only known habitat on New Zealand’s South Island where they were once natively found. About 20 years ago, a coal mining operation in ...

They say beauty is everywhere if we have eyes to see; a team of scientists looked at a tiny, 3-mm snail and saw ... major threats to locally endemic land snails in Southeast Asia.

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. The Desertas Island land ...