To save it, they undertook one of the largest captive snail breeding and reintroduction efforts in Australian, and perhaps ...

"To finally have a population of Partula tohiveana back out in the wild is an incredibly important moment for us as a team, and for me personally. I have been looking after these snails for ten years.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – A snail species once declared ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only discovered a wild population of Campbell’s keeled ...

Wild-born individuals of the species had not been found in more than 40 years, experts said. Photo by Justin Hu via Unsplash On a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, a rare species once declared ...

Since 1990, the St. Louis Zoo has played an instrumental role in bringing Tahitian snails back from the brink of extinction. Few species that have gone completely extinct have been successfully ...

Conservationists found a Polynesian tree snail that had been born in the a French Polynesian forest, the first since the species went extinct in the wild. Photo by Paul Pearce-Kelly It’s a “momentous ...

A University of Alabama graduate student has discovered a snail in the Cahaba River that had been declared extinct 12 years ago. Details of the discovery by student, Nathan Whelan, of the Oblong ...

The peanut-sized mollusks' comeback is credited to a decades-long conservation program led by the Zoological Society of London London Zoo A tiny, rare creature is no longer extinct. The Partula ...