Federal wildlife officials are seeking endangered species status for a freshwater mollusk — the “magnificent ramshorn snail” — that’s indigenous to Southeastern North Carolina but hasn’t been seen in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The snail, possibly the big-eared radix, is native to Europe and Asia. (P.E.I. Invasive Species Council - image credit) A survey ...
A Magnificent Ramshorn snail at biologist Andy Wood’s snail refuge in Hampstead. Wood took the Magnificent Ramshorn into captivity in the early 1990s. He has maintained a population of the snails, ...
Don’t let the title of this column fool you. Despite the title of apple snails, I am not sharing the latest escargot recipe offered up at a fancy restaurant here in The Last Green Valley (TGLV). Today ...
A small shed-like structure built in the longleaf pine forest a stone’s throw from Andy Wood’s Hampstead home is one of the last places on Earth that the magnificent ramshorn snail can be found. For ...
MOBILE, Ala. -- The telltale masses of pink eggs appearing around the water's edge mean Amazonian apple snails have emerged from their winter hibernation in the muck at the bottom of Langan Pond and ...
A freshwater snail common in ponds across Europe can adjust its pigmentation in response to certain environmental stressors, new research suggests. Radix balthica, spanning less than a half-inch (0.8 ...
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission announced on Friday, Nov. 17, that a federally endangered snail species was reintroduced to the wild in Brunswick ...
A small shed-like structure built in the longleaf pine forest a stone’s throw from Andy Wood’s Hampstead home is one of the last places on Earth that the magnificent ramshorn snail can be found. For ...
Scientists want the magnificent ramshorn snail, unique to southeastern North Carolina, to be declared an endangered species and two ponds named its critical habitat. The protections could help the ...
A survey recently conducted on Prince Edward Island turned up a type of freshwater snail that experts say has never before been identified in the Maritimes. Nature P.E.I. said in a news release that ...
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