24 (Xinhua) -- The expert team of the China-aided Zanzibar schistosomiasis control project has completed a three-month comprehensive snail control operation across all key schistosomiasis-related water bodies in Tanzania's Zanzibar.
Inside were thumbnail-sized snails, hundreds of them, with delicate, keeled shells ... How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction ... Each snail was painstakingly tagged.
I see Christmas cards as tiny gifts. I feel this way about birthday cards, too. The ones that arrive in the mailbox, cold and a little bent around the edges. They represent thoughtfulness in so many ways. Someone took the ... .
the purple storm snail, Janthina janthina. These delicate snails are rarely seen unless strong onshore winds push the offshore world right up to our toes, and each one that washes ashore carries a story of remarkable survival at the ocean’s surface.
A group of endangered snails have been relocated which could allow progress to continue on a major road scheme ... But according to a report for National Highways, published this week, the snails have been successfully moved to other sites.