A deep-sea snail, many of Europe's fungi and half the freshwater fish in Japan are just some obscure additions to a list of threatened species. The Red List, a conservation status catalogue of ...

The sea snail with shell measures a little less than ... it is designated as a near-threatened species on the Environment Ministry’s Red List and listed in the Vulnerable (VU) category by ...

More than 1,300 pea-sized, critically endangered snails that were bred in a zoo have been set free to wander (very slowly) on a remote Atlantic island. The release brings two species of Desertas ...

feast on a small sea snail species called Limacina helicina, whose clear, glass-like shells measure 3 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Katsunori Kimoto, a senior researcher at the Japan Agency for ...

MORRO BAY, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed changing the Endangered Species Act status of the Morro shoulderband snail from endangered to threatened. Found only in the Los ...

The Desertas Island land snail, which is about the size of a pea, was believed to have gone extinct after no sightings were recorded for more than a century. But after two species were found on ...