‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...
The world’s your oyster, so they say... Let’s take a look at a range of types of saltwater aquarium fish, both common and rare, affordable and budget-busting. This classic saltwater aquarium ...
A team of Japanese and Thai researchers has found four species of luminous land snails, only the second such discovery after one came to light in 1943. Scientists from Chubu University in Kasugai ...
While the researchers intentionally brought in a distinct population of the same snail species, these evolved to strikingly resemble the population lost over 30 years prior. The study, led by ...
This snail might be small but conservation efforts to save it have had a massive impact. The Partula tohiveana is a species of mollusc that became extinct in the wild but thanks to the hard work ...
The find, made during annual reintroduction of zoo-bred snails, confirmed that these once extinct in the wild species are now finally breeding in the wild, making them an established species.