This adult Partula tohiveana snail doesn't have a dot of UV-reflective paint on its shell, meaning it was born in the wild. Paul Pearce-Kelly In French Polynesia, tiny snails are making a big comeback ...

Partula snails were extinct in the wild, but in April, scientists released over 5,000 of them back into their native habitat in French Polynesia, Mongabay reports. The Partula snail is a tiny land ...

A tiny, rare creature is no longer extinct. The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously declared extinct in the wild, ...

Since 1990, the St. Louis Zoo has played an instrumental role in bringing Tahitian snails back from the brink of extinction. Few species that have gone completely extinct have been successfully ...

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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 ...

AKRON, Ohio — Two experts from the Akron Zoo recently traveled to the South Pacific, helping to reintroduce an extinct species into the wild. According to a release, the Akron Zoo partnered on the ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

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 ...

The peanut-sized mollusks' comeback is credited to a decades-long conservation program led by the Zoological Society of London London Zoo A tiny, rare creature is no longer extinct. The Partula ...