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From 'extinct' to growing, a rare snail returns to the wild in Australia

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 glass-snail on Australia’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...
Australian Geographic

Snails once thought extinct now thriving on Norfolk Island

A group of critically-endangered snails returned to the wild on Norfolk Island last year are not only surviving, but reproducing. Last year saw Australia’s first large-scale snail translocation, with ...