Asheville, North Carolina – Wildlife biologists scaled the wall of the Nantahala Gorge on hands and knees – more climbing than hiking the steep terrain – searching for one of the rarest animals in the ...

Researchers rediscover tiny tropical land snails, reclassifying lost species and reshaping the tree of life in Central ...

Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...

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 ...

Researchers have studied the changes in the make-up of animal populations following forest fires, and have concluded that malacological fauna are a good indicator of forest recovery. The conclusions ...

The giant tropical land snail Archachatina bicarinata. Photo courtesy of Martin Dallimer. The newest subject of our Forgotten Species series, Archachatina bicarinata is endemic to the islands of Sao ...

The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail is officially extinct, but researchers have ‘high hopes’ that translocation will allow the population to thrive ...

A rare snail species that had likely become extinct in the wild was recently reintroduced to the Hawaiian landscape. Known as Achatinella fuscobasis, the snail species had dwindled to only 11 ...

Asikasu (B/A), Nov. 22, GNA - The Mpamso Forest Reserve near Asikasu in the Dormaa District that was once replete with snails is to be replenished to restore the delicacy. Researchers from the Kwame ...

It’s a “momentous milestone” for a tiny creature whose species was nearly wiped out decades ago. While releasing thousands of the rare snails back into the French Polynesian wild, conservationists ...