In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago—had gone extinct. While later searches turned up some snails that had ...
A golden apple snail can regrow a complete camera-type eye in 30 days, offering new clues into genetic pathways that may one day help restore human vision ...
"It's every conservationist's dream to help save a whole species – and that's exactly what we've done," said Tamas Papp of the Chester Zoo ...
Scientists have recognized snails’ regenerative abilities for centuries. In 1766, a researcher documented that decapitated garden snails could regrow their entire heads. Despite that long history, ...
An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.
Road salt becomes much more deadly to freshwater snails when predator stress is present, raising mortality rates.
The golden apple snail can fully regrow its entire eye in just 30 days, revealing extraordinary regenerative abilities with potential implications for human vision and medical research.
A conservation journal is to release a study on an endemic Bermuda snail once thought to be extinct. A small colony of ...
This restoration effort, the team says, is one of the biggest success stories they've experienced in their careers.
While people and many animals might look pretty symmetrical on the outside, inside our bodies we are all fundamentally asymmetric. For example, the human heart is found to the left of center. Snails ...