Meet The Snail That Thrives Where Almost Nothing Else Can. Hint: It Has Armor Made Of Iron

In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...
Yahoo

Endangered Everglades snail kite making a comeback, with help of UF researchers

We know whether the Everglade snail kite becomes more or less endangered every few hours. At least we do at Lake Tohopekaliga (Lake Toho, for short), an 18,810-acre lake located southeast of Kissimmee ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

Confirmed by environmental authorities—Oʻahu tree snails return to the forest after 30 years extinct in the wild

Back on December 10, 2024, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources let a group of endangered O‘ahu tree snails loose inside a fenced-off sanctuary ...
UNHCR

Snail farmers make trails in refugee income generation project

SACLEPEA REFUGEE CAMP, Liberia, May 14 (UNHCR) - Papa Tokpa Sadia, 45, is all smiles as he picks up a snail and explains how it is extracted from its shell to prepare a meal. "Snail meat is very ...
WRAL

Two lefties make a right, if you're a rare garden snail

A scientific journey that began with a lovelorn snail has provided new information regarding the cause of that snail's rare shell. The lovesick gastropod was a garden snail called Jeremy, named after ...
Science Daily

Two lefties make a right -- if you are a one-in-a-million garden snail

A global campaign to help find a mate for a left-coiling snail called 'Jeremy' has enabled scientists to understand how mirror-image garden snails are formed. The findings show that the rare ...