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

Mongabay
Dec 29, 2025, 9:53 am326 ptsTop
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 Norfolk Island in 2020 — they’ve now bred the snail in captivity and recently released more than 300…

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